For the Love of Suffering: The Athlete of God
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2019
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This study takes an interdisciplinary approach to examine the relationship
between sport and spiritual formation. By inviting to the conversation contributions
from sociological research, personal narratives, biblical themes and philosophical
arguments, it aims to examine how voluntary suffering in sport could provide a context
conducive to spiritual growth. Rather than look at physical engagement in sport and
spiritual formation as unrelated domains of pursuit, we will map the contours where the
two converge and even stimulate one another. We will analyze courage as a unique
quality fit for cultivation in suffering, and positions it as an integral part of living out
faith, hope and love. This study seeks to address the rigidity that is prevalent in the way
Christians think of spirituality and deepen the conversation as it relates to formative
frameworks in athletics.
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Won, Mark (2019). For the Love of Suffering: The Athlete of God. Dissertation, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/20202.
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