Post Traumatic Stress, Moral Injury, and Soul Repair: Implications for Western Christian Theology
Rita Nakashima Brock
This paper explores the soteriological differences in two Christian theological systems and their usefulness supporting recovery from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD an anxiety-trauma disorder, moral injury, a disruption of conscience collapse person’s foundations. The first system, first-millennium soteriology based incarnation resurrection, grounded penance that were required warriors to restore souls. second, atonement ideas emerged eleventh-century with crusades Europe, constructed meaning system redemption sanctified war traumatic suffering eventually abandoned for warriors. It is argument this theology reenacts reinforces trauma rather than human well-being.
Issues in science and religion: publications of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology