In this day-long workshop, Julia Feder, Ph.D. will outline three different ways to make meaning out of suffering in the Christian tradition. Each of the three ways of thinking about suffering offer different gifts to sufferers and each of the three ways can have pitfalls. There will be time for personal reflection and group discussion as we explore together these different ways of making meaning of suffering.
Julia Feder, Ph.D. is the acting director of the Center for the Study of Spirituality and associate professor of Religious Studies and Theology at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana. Her writing and research focus on theological anthropology, theologies of suffering, and spirituality. She is the author of Incarnating Grace: A Theology of Healing from Sexual Trauma and co-principal investigator of “Just One Jesuit: Communities’ Accounts of the Effects of Clergy Abuse Through the Lens of a Singular Priest’s Mission Activities,” a grant from Fordham University’s “Taking Responsibility Project.”