Name: Stumbling toward Zion: Recovering the Biblical Tradition of Lament in the Era of World Christianity
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Author: David W. Smith
ISBN: 9781783687770

In this powerful and challenging book, David W. Smith identifies a crisis at the heart of the church. It is the crisis of triumphalism – the tendency to avoid honest engagement with brokenness and suffering, privileging victory while rejecting the practice of lament. This imbalance, Smith argues, threatens to undermine the credibility of faith for a watching world, alienating those experiencing hardship and oppression; those wrestling with doubt, uncertainty, and loss.
In Stumbling toward Zion, Smith reclaims the importance of lament throughout Scripture – from the Old Testament to the gospel narratives and Paul’s letters – and explores the history and impact of its loss within certain church traditions. World Christianity, with its heartlands in contexts of poverty, war and persecution, has a crucial role to play in recovering an understanding of God’s love for a suffering creation capable of restoring the credibility of Christian witness in the midst of our brokenness. Containing practical application for church life and mission, Smith offers an opportunity to reengage with biblical lament, rediscover neglected aspects of Christian faith, and reawaken to God’s heart for a suffering world.

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Jane Melton
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Brilliant book, for reasone outlined in previous review. Deeply thoughtful, accessible and revolutionary in our time. A must read.
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Alistair R Bill
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This is a book that is small in length, but which should be big in its impact. Drawing on both Testaments, philosophic background, his experience in Nigeria, David Smith challenges the Church in the West to learn from the majority church by living out the Biblical tradition of lament and engaging with the suffering and brokenness of those around us, rather than living in a bubble of triumphalism which seems to ignore those wrestling with doubt, uncertainty and loss. We will do well to read this book carefully.

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