Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Theomagination With Phil Aud
Episode: They Did Not Believe The Women: At the Border Between Trauma & Resurrection
Description: Do our new understandings of trauma change how we read scripture? I was captivated by Serene Jones' reading of the Emmaus Road narrative through the lens of trauma, in her book Trauma + Grace. After reading her, I returned to the text and saw these strange words concerning the resurrection that are a sort of set up to the Emmaus story, "they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense” (24:11, emphasis mine). This episode explores the women in Luke 24 as existing (even still) at the borderland between trauma and resurrection.I've started writing ov...