“Han”
As I stated in the last essay about lament and Psalms 137 “Pain is to real and when we deny the truly raw and powerful emotions of loss [or hurt] we in fact are impairing faith; we are denying an important and potent agent of change” There is plenty of room for this notion in many biblical stories in fact many are fashioned about a complaint to God. Hopkins outlines and guides the reader though the typical lament structure in her chapter Complaining in Faith to God. The psalms can be seen as a valid lament because they also fit into the traditional model of laments. The first section of a lament address God and ask the question of why or how long will the suffering last. this sections is usually short but very emotional, which leads to the Complaint proper’s, …show more content…
The next part of the Psalmist is the Confession of trust and finally the vow of Praise. (Hopkins 81-82) she is quoted as saying “the psalm laments insist on the embrace of this life and a push to justice” (Hopkins 91).
Continuing on in the same chapter Hopkins expresses “we cultivate numbness, and so we are outraged by the intensity of pain in the enemy language of the psalms. The psalm[est] laments do no bid us to share the sufferer's hate, but rather, the sufferer's pain by allowing that pain to be expressed” (Hopkins 93). This to me is a legitimate way to express anger healthy and thus a possible way to address “han”. “Han” as described by Chung Hyun Kyung “Han is the most prevalent feeling among Korean people, who have been violated throughout their history by the surrounding powerful countries this feeling raised from of sense of impasse. Often Korean people especially the and the woman have not had any access to public channels through which they can challenge the injustices done to them they have long been silenced by physical and psychological intimidation and actual bodily violence’s by the oppressor” (Kyung, 42). I believe this idea came up on an episode of the West Wing entitled
As I stated in the last essay about lament and Psalms 137 “Pain is to real and when we deny the truly raw and powerful emotions of loss [or hurt] we in fact are impairing faith; we are denying an important and potent agent of change” There is plenty of room for this notion in many biblical stories in fact many are fashioned about a complaint to God. Hopkins outlines and guides the reader though the typical lament structure in her chapter Complaining in Faith to God. The psalms can be seen as a valid lament because they also fit into the traditional model of laments. The first section of a lament address God and ask the question of why or how long will the suffering last. this sections is usually short but very emotional, which leads to the Complaint proper’s, …show more content…
The next part of the Psalmist is the Confession of trust and finally the vow of Praise. (Hopkins 81-82) she is quoted as saying “the psalm laments insist on the embrace of this life and a push to justice” (Hopkins 91).
Continuing on in the same chapter Hopkins expresses “we cultivate numbness, and so we are outraged by the intensity of pain in the enemy language of the psalms. The psalm[est] laments do no bid us to share the sufferer's hate, but rather, the sufferer's pain by allowing that pain to be expressed” (Hopkins 93). This to me is a legitimate way to express anger healthy and thus a possible way to address “han”. “Han” as described by Chung Hyun Kyung “Han is the most prevalent feeling among Korean people, who have been violated throughout their history by the surrounding powerful countries this feeling raised from of sense of impasse. Often Korean people especially the and the woman have not had any access to public channels through which they can challenge the injustices done to them they have long been silenced by physical and psychological intimidation and actual bodily violence’s by the oppressor” (Kyung, 42). I believe this idea came up on an episode of the West Wing entitled