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@article{ART002900341},
author={Kyu Bo Kim},
title={A Biblical Review of Modern Discourse on Pain},
journal={Journal of Counseling and Gospel },
issn={1739-0745},
year={2022},
volume={30},
number={3},
pages={5-34},
doi={10.17841/jocag.2022.30.3.5}

TY - JOUR
AU - Kyu Bo Kim
TI - A Biblical Review of Modern Discourse on Pain
JO - Journal of Counseling and Gospel
PY - 2022
VL - 30
IS - 3
PB - Korean Evangelical Counseling Society
SP - 5
EP - 34
SN - 1739-0745
AB - Pain is an inevitable existential problem for all human beings. If humans are created in the image of God and God governs over all creation, the problem of human pain is incomprehensible apart from God's providence and His redemptive history. Modern discourses on pain, however, are mostly formed without the consideration of God’s existence and providence. Therefore, it is a meaningful project to explore the modern discourses of pain from a biblical point of view and present a biblical alternative. This paper argues that Modern discourses of pain entail meaninglessness, avoidance, personalization, comparison, and spiritualization of it. People today are gradually losing the meaning of pain, and the loss of its meaning makes them lean to avoiding or deleting the experience of pain from their personal lives. Pain is getting considered an individual problem, so it weakens the public responsibility of taking care of the problem of pain in a sociocultural level. The personalized pain, in turn, brings about pain comparison with other people’s pain. There is also an approach to radically spiritualize the experience of pain, losing the earthiness of it. Such discourses have a limitation in the lack of a holistic understanding of human beings, and therefore fail to see its narrative and meaning in God's providence and His drama. A follow-up study of a biblical discourse of pain and its practical implications for soul care is suggested.
KW - pain;meaninglessness;avoidance;personalization;comparison
DO - 10.17841/jocag.2022.30.3.5
ER -

Kyu Bo Kim. (2022). A Biblical Review of Modern Discourse on Pain. Journal of Counseling and Gospel , 30(3), 5-34.

Kyu Bo Kim. 2022, "A Biblical Review of Modern Discourse on Pain", Journal of Counseling and Gospel , vol.30, no.3 pp.5-34. Available from: doi:10.17841/jocag.2022.30.3.5

Kyu Bo Kim "A Biblical Review of Modern Discourse on Pain" Journal of Counseling and Gospel 30.3 pp.5-34 (2022) : 5.

Kyu Bo Kim. A Biblical Review of Modern Discourse on Pain. 2022; 30(3), 5-34. Available from: doi:10.17841/jocag.2022.30.3.5

Kyu Bo Kim. "A Biblical Review of Modern Discourse on Pain" Journal of Counseling and Gospel 30, no.3 (2022) : 5-34.doi: 10.17841/jocag.2022.30.3.5

Kyu Bo Kim. A Biblical Review of Modern Discourse on Pain. Journal of Counseling and Gospel , 30(3), 5-34. doi: 10.17841/jocag.2022.30.3.5

Kyu Bo Kim. A Biblical Review of Modern Discourse on Pain. Journal of Counseling and Gospel . 2022; 30(3) 5-34. doi: 10.17841/jocag.2022.30.3.5

Kyu Bo Kim. A Biblical Review of Modern Discourse on Pain. 2022; 30(3), 5-34. Available from: doi:10.17841/jocag.2022.30.3.5

Kyu Bo Kim. "A Biblical Review of Modern Discourse on Pain" Journal of Counseling and Gospel 30, no.3 (2022) : 5-34.doi: 10.17841/jocag.2022.30.3.5