{"id":2095,"date":"2013-06-26T09:46:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T15:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2013-06-26T09:46:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T15:46:14","slug":"the-enduring-value-of-pain-isaac-anderson-on-rebecca-solnits-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/2013\/06\/the-enduring-value-of-pain-isaac-anderson-on-rebecca-solnits-new-book.html","title":{"rendered":"The Enduring Value of Pain: Isaac Anderson on Rebecca Solnit’s New Book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

My friend Isaac Anderson has written an impressive book review for Los Angeles Review of Books<\/em> <\/a>on the Rebecca Solnit\u2019s new book. That she deals so heavily with pain is happily coincidental for me, given that I preached on pain last week on the subject of Pain. I\u2019ve been thinking about it a lot lately, it\u2019s importance for us all, and how to engage pain in healthy, transformational ways. Here\u2019s an excerpt from Isaac\u2019s review:<\/p>\n

Quoting Solnit\u201d [W]e are a society that values the anesthetic over pain. We hide our prisons, our sick, our mad, and our poor; we expend colossal resources to live in padded, temperature-controlled environments that make few demands on our bodies or our minds. We come up with elaborate means of not knowing about the suffering of others and of blaming them when we do.\u201d<\/p>\n

This distancing comes with a cost. \u201cChoosing not to feel pain is choosing a sort of death, a withering away of the expansive self.\u201d Solnit is making a connection between our own disinclinations to identify with others\u2019 hardships and the condition known as peripheral neuropathy, the lack of sensation that causes those afflicted with leprosy to lose fingers, toes, feet. Apathy is a separating sickness of a different kind, she suggests, one that constricts and dehumanizes our social contracts in similar fashion. Empathy enlarges, on the other hand, through \u201can act of imagination, of extending yourself beyond yourself, of feeling what you do not feel innately by invoking it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I will try and put up a sermon synopsis tomorrow. If you are interested, for now you can listen to what I did with the topic of pain here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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