The Spirit of Adoption

Writers on Religion, Adoption, Faith, and More

Melanie Springer Mock, Martha Kalnin Diede, Jeremiah Webster, Mock, Diede

• Editorial: Cascade Books
• Año: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781630875190
• Categoría: Theology & Religion
• Categoría: Ethics & Religion

The Spirit of Adoption explores many of the complexities inherent in adoption and its relationship to spirituality, challenging us to move beyond the common mythologies about adoption to consider the more difficult questions adoption raises about the nature of God, family, culture, loss, and joy. Rather than hearing from experts in adoption, this collection uses the narratives of birth parents, adoptive parents, and adoptees themselves, bearing witness to the ways adoption shapes its participants' spiritual lives. By allowing others to narrate their spiritual journeys through adoption, we hope to proclaim that adoption can be a wonderful, powerful, hopeful experience, and one that is difficult, painful, despairing--and that these paradoxes of adoption might be held together in God's hand.

Índice

• Title Page
• Contributors
• Foreword
• Preface
• Introduction: The Spirit of Adoption
• Chapter 1: Trinitarian Adoption and Identity Formation
• Chapter 2: Our Mutual Adoption
• Chapter 3: Found by Grace
• Chapter 4: When Adoption, Colorado Ranches, and Kung Fu Panda Collide
• Chapter 5: How Adoption Brought Me from Darkness to Light
• Chapter 6: The Right Fit?
• Chapter 7: Kiki
• Chapter 8: On (Not) Fearing the Mystery of God
• Chapter 9: Overcoming
• Chapter 10: Where in the Bible Am I?
• Chapter 11: The Whole Story
• Chapter 12: The Fruitful Tree
• Chapter 13: Adoption of Lizette
• Chapter 14: Love or Luck?
• Chapter 15: All Shall Be Well
• Chapter 16: Open Questions
• Chapter 17: Dumb Questions about Adoption
• Chapter 18: Grit and Grace
• Chapter 19: A Tapestry of Redemption
• Chapter 20: Reflections on Adoption and Religion
• Bibliography