Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The phenomenology of lament and the presence of God in time / Rebekka A. Klein -- Enquiring into the absence of lament : a study of the entwining of suffering and guilt in lament / Jonas Bauer -- God, lament, contingency : an essay in fundamental theology / Christian Polke -- Lament for naught? An inquiry into the suppression of lament in systematic theology : on the example of Karl Barth / Matthias D. Wüthrich -- Lamentation between contradiction and obedience : Hegel and Barth as diametrically opposed brothers in the spirit of modernity / Martin Wendte -- The fractured unity of God : lament as a challenge to the very nature of God / Marius Timmann Mjaaland -- Trust and lament : faith in the face of godforsakenness / Claudia Welz -- Praise, petition, lament-- and back : on the significance of lament in the Book of Tobit / Henrike Frey-Anthes -- To mourn, weep, lament and groan : on the heterogeneity of the New Testament's statements on lament / Markus Öhler -- 'Have you any right to be angry?' Lament as a metric of socio-political and theological context / Stephen Lakkis -- Augustine's incitement to lament, from the Enarrationes in Psalmos / Brian Brock -- Crucified praise and resurrected lament / Eva Harasta.