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ArticleReligions2025

"My Tears Have Been My Food, Both Day and Night": Integrating Theology and Psychology on the Nature of Grief.

Daniel Lee Hill, Sierra Wickline, Angie S LeRoy

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Article in Religions, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Daniel Lee HillGeorge W. Truett Seminary, Baylor University, Baylor, TX 76798, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0818-4647
Sierra WicklineDepartment of Psychological & Brain Sciences, University of North Florida, 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA.
Angie S LeRoyDepartment of Psychological & Brain Sciences, University of North Florida, 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA.

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Writing to Heal: Developing an Internet-Based Cognitive-Behavioral Writing Intervention for Alzheimer’s Disease Spousal CaregiversK01AG073824 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA · PI Angie S LeRoy · 2022 to 2026
$611k
NIA NIH HHS K01 AG073824
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent work on theological reflection on the phenomenon of human grief has called for an apophatic posture, one that resists speaking positively about what grief is, what grief does, or where it is situated with respect to the economy of God's works. Grief, on this account, is viewed as inaccessible to theological inquiry and illogical in nature. This essay references recent work in psychological science to offer "theological fragments" on the nature of grief with the respect to the generational self's journey in the "time of weeping." In so doing, it argues that an integration of theological and psychological science provides a framework for describing grief in a way that resists the temptation to ascribe positive meaning or value to it in the reconciling work of God.

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Augustinebereavementgriefselfhoodsufferingtheodicytheological description

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PMID42852453
PMCPMC13649332

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