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Smith, G. C.

 
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Synopsis

The point and purpose of Faith Without Explanations: What Disaster Work Taught Me About God is to explore what happens to faith when people spend prolonged time near catastrophe, grief, helplessness, and human suffering that cannot be explained away. Drawing from years of disaster spiritual care and ministry experience, the book challenges simplistic religious answers and examines how disaster work often wounds theology before it wounds emotional functioning.

Rather than attempting to defend easy certainty, the book invites readers into a more honest and compassionate faith shaped by presence, lament, humility, and accompaniment. It seeks to give language to the spiritual exhaustion, moral injury, unanswered questions, and emotional disorientation experienced by survivors, caregivers, responders, clergy, and anyone who has struggled to reconcile suffering with belief in a loving God.

At its core, the book argues that faith does not survive catastrophe by becoming more certain but by becoming more human. It offers a vision of spirituality rooted not in explanations but in the willingness to remain present with one another inside pain, grief, and unfinishedness.

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À propos de l'auteur

G. C. Smith is a writer, pastor, and clinical pastoral counselor whose work focuses on moral injury, integrity under constraint, and the cost of faithfulness in public and institutional life. He holds a PhD in clinical pastoral counseling and is a licensed clinical pastoral counselor and board-certified grief and trauma therapist. He is the author of Stories of Bearing and several works on moral injury. He lives in Iowa.

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