For the Love of Suffering: The Athlete of God

dc.contributor.advisor	Smith, J Warren
dc.contributor.advisor	Kretchmar, Scott
dc.contributor.author	Won, Mark
dc.date.accessioned	2020-02-21T15:57:22Z
dc.date.available	2020-02-21T15:57:22Z
dc.date.issued	2019
dc.department	Duke Divinity School
dc.description	Doctor of Ministry
dc.description.abstract	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.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10161/20202
dc.subject	Spirituality
dc.subject	Kinesiology
dc.subject	Physiology
dc.subject	ascetism
dc.subject	athlete
dc.subject	endurance
dc.subject	Spirituality
dc.subject	sport
dc.subject	Suffering
dc.title	For the Love of Suffering: The Athlete of God
dc.type	Dissertation

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