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Book Review: Karen O’Donnell, Broken Bodies: The Eucharist, Mary, and the Body in Trauma Theology

Book Review: Karen O’Donnell, Broken Bodies: The Eucharist, Mary, and the Body in Trauma Theology Book Reviews 101 Broken Bodies: The Eucharist, Mary, and the Body in Trauma Theology. By Karen O’Donnell. London: SCM Research, 2018. 224 pp. $37.00 (paperback). In recent years, a rich vein of theological reflection has emerged around trauma theory. The work of Serene Jones and Shelly Rambo comes immediately to mind, but there are both earlier and still-emerging works by others contributing to this field, not to mention the flowering of this topic in pastoral studies, psychology, biblical studies, and philoso- phy. Karen O’Donnell, who holds a doctorate from Exeter and oversees the spirituality program at Sarum College, adds a provocative contribution to that literature with this book. To the extent that attention to the Incarnation and not the death of Christ alone has been a distinctive mark of many Anglican theologies—and there is a shift in that direc- tion in many newer eucharistic prayers around the Anglican Communion—this is a con- tribution well worth the notice of Anglicans. O’Donnell’s claim is that her attention to somatic memory is the book’s fresh contribution, bringing the attention of trauma theory to the body and to memory together (p. 14). While one might quibble with whether this connection is present in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anglican Theological Review SAGE

Book Review: Karen O’Donnell, Broken Bodies: The Eucharist, Mary, and the Body in Trauma Theology

Farwell, James W.
Anglican Theological Review , Volume 104 (1): 1 – Jan 4, 2022
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Book Reviews 101 Broken Bodies: The Eucharist, Mary, and the Body in Trauma Theology. By Karen O’Donnell. London: SCM Research, 2018. 224 pp. $37.00 (paperback). In recent years, a rich vein of theological reflection has emerged around trauma theory. The work of Serene Jones and Shelly Rambo comes immediately to mind, but there are both earlier and still-emerging works by others contributing to this field, not to mention the flowering of this topic in pastoral studies, psychology, biblical studies, and philoso- phy. Karen O’Donnell, who holds a doctorate from Exeter and oversees the spirituality program at Sarum College, adds a provocative contribution to that literature with this book. To the extent that attention to the Incarnation and not the death of Christ alone has been a distinctive mark of many Anglican theologies—and there is a shift in that direc- tion in many newer eucharistic prayers around the Anglican Communion—this is a con- tribution well worth the notice of Anglicans. O’Donnell’s claim is that her attention to somatic memory is the book’s fresh contribution, bringing the attention of trauma theory to the body and to memory together (p. 14). While one might quibble with whether this connection is present in

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