13: Dr Dave Beach: Deconstructing from Suffering

Jun 11, 2023

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Dr Dave Beach lost his wife to cancer, and it triggered a deconstruction of his assumptions about the world. He found out that the propositions he claimed were not embedded deep in his own soul. He went on a journey to make sense of this event in light of his faith and eventually wrote a dissertation on the topic of Christianity and suffering with the hopes of meeting people at the intersection of their faith and suffering with hospitality and care. Dave is a retired counselor, college teacher, a current author, speaker, chaplain, and spiritual formation presenter, as well as an executive director of Four Health Family Resource Center Inc, in Saranac MI.

You can find Dave’s book here: https://rb.gy/9ri2p and
You can Dave’s Dissertation here: https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/dmin/281/

Below are the topics and time stamps of the issues we cover which includes,

2:23: Introductions
6:05: Faith Roots
8:11: Bad Songs that shaped his theology and expectation
10:23: “Faith” insulating us from reality
12:34: The First domino of deconstruction: Congregation vs my Dad
17:11: Power dynamics in churches
19:16: Pastoral Authority
22:43: A dissertation to make space for those who suffer
27:00: Jesus, the Man of Sorrows
31:50: Losing my wife to cancer
36:31: Trauma: shattering the assumptive world
39:00: Doubt, struggle, unbelief, AS a form of faith
43:46: The Role of God within suffering: Incarnation and Trinity
48:55: Suffering leads to awakening, but what about trauma damage?
54:51: Post Traumatic Growth
59:28: 5 Views of suffering in the Christian journey
1:04:47: Spiritual bypassing, disassociation, and transcendence
1:10:24: Suffering as initiation into reality, and God
1:12:39: Labels vs essence. Christian as noun and not adjective
1:19:18: Suffering dissolving illusion, bringing us into contact with reality
1:24:15: How is my faith more than a set of propositions?
1:25:49: Hope is not an emotion but an imagination
1:28:19: Conclusion

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