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Article

Publication Date

6-2-2020

Abstract

In the history of Christian thought, suffering has frequently been conceptualized as a process of “refinement.” Suffering “refined” believers and religious communities by (painfully) stripping away the unnecessary, as well as by revealing and perfecting the core dimensions of religious practice.

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Originally published in Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion in June 2020

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