Our study addresses this underexamined question by directly and empirically investigating how and to what extent exposure to media coverage of
suffering of the opponents in conflict predicts one's willingness to recognize the pain and
suffering.
According to Robin Ryan, an associate professor of systematic theology at Catholic Theological Union and a Passionist priest, the presence of
suffering is the one thing that most challenges our faith.
But we come with our friendship and willingness to share the
suffering they endure.
According to the notion that the "[r]emembrance of what has been endured summons the future," (16) remembrance of past eschatological
suffering can connect the past with the present, while also making it possible to control present
sufferings and to hope for future salvation.
With the second interpretation of the phrase "He loved them to the end," however, an inextricable link between
suffering and love is expressed, almost like a mountain and a valley, such that if the
suffering were to vanish, so necessarily would the love--perhaps not all of the love, but a certain intensity and fullness of it would be lost.
From daily stressors to trauma,
suffering has different meanings to each individual or society.
The reasons for
suffering are desire, passion, ardour, pursuit of wealth and prestige, striving for fame and popularity, or in short: craving and clinging.
Burton argues that women were attracted to this doctrine of vicarious
suffering as a way to give meaning to the ordinary pain of their lives as well as to acquire power by embracing voluntarily their culturally and theologically imposed powerlessness.
The
suffering Servant in Isaiah 50:4-9, and elsewhere in Isaiah 40-55, is a commanding figure.
In Christ and with Christ the martyrs disarm the principalities and powers and share in his triumph over them, for their share in Christ's
sufferings makes them sharers also in the mighty deeds those
sufferings accomplished.
Gunderman's glorification of
suffering ("Is
Suffering the Enemy?
When does the image of a
suffering and dying Savior cease being redemptive and become instead a sanction for enduring violence?
