In the article “Faith and Resilience: King David’s Reaction to the Death of Bathsheba’s Firstborn,” David Bosworth writes to prove that David’s behavior in 2 Samuel 12:13-25 is because he is a resilient individual. I believe that Bosworth makes a well-supported argument to explain how David’s lack of mourning is because his faith makes him resilient in times of adversity (692). Bosworth breaks his argument down into sections discussing how David’s actions tie in with supplication, the concept of resilience, and various pathways to resilience. Bosworth’s goal is to “clarify how the strange behavior of David in this episode presents him as a man whose faith makes him resilient in times of adversity.”
Bosworth first clarifies that David’s behavior
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David’s resilience is viewed both positively and negatively for various reasons. To come to a conclusion Bosworth first clarifies that resiliency is not a trait, but a process that occurs when individuals are interacting in their environments (Bosworth, 703). Also resiliency is not relevant without adversity, and the concept of it is tied to normative judgments. He then describes the difference between resiliency and recovery because many people tend to think the terms are interchangeable. Resiliency in adults, means that they are able to live functional lives despite having experienced a trauma, this does not mean they have emotionally recovered from said event. He addresses that people also confuse coping well in situations with being cold or emotionless. However research has found that resiliency in the face of bereavement is not uncommon (699). Bosworth uses a large amount of scientific evidence to show that although David was resilient to mourning, this does not constitute him as an emotionless …show more content…
The author points out that regardless of any of the other possible explanations, the text only points at David’s piety as the reason for his resilience. Although the servants are still confused by his actions they may not understand because David characterizes himself as someone who finds resilience through religion. Bosworth continues his argument by stating that the ability to find meaning in a loss is “a core part of grieving and generally surviving adversity” (Bosworth, 703). David knows that he deserves to die and his sin is the reason for his infant son’s illness. He begs God to change his mind, but when he does not, David accepts this and moves on. Bosworth then adds “personal guilt can bring a sense of control to an event that otherwise seems random, inexplicable, and beyond control”(704). The death of David’s infant son makes sense to him because he accepts that God has done this to punish him for his wrongdoing. The author also references some biblical texts to support the reasoning for David’s belief that his son died for a moral reason. Closing his argument, Bosworth compares David’s character in this particular passage to his character throughout the rest of the text. He finds that David continually acts with the same self-reliance and reliance on God throughout all of his trials
This quote illustrates that David has guilt that his mother died because he feels that if he did his daily routine that day then his mother wouldn't have
He was thankful that he survived through all of the troubles he had to go through by the support of his family. Although David questioned his religion, he believed in stories that he
permanent for at the end of the story, David is asked to go out and shoot some pigeons in the
Biblical principle #32 relates to Moreland’s call to understanding knowledge for one’s purpose in life, by emphasizing on a person’s self-conception. “A person’s self-concept determines how he or she reacts to the world” (#32). This proclamation deliberates on the importance of an awareness of the self-constructed from the philosophies a person embraces about oneself and the responses of that of others. Samuel 30:6 states “And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God”. In this passage, we see that David was distraught because of traumatic events that occurred in his life.
For some people the strong word resilience can impact one’s life in a significant way. Overall, resiliency is having the ability to still enjoy and continue your life with positive, good times, regardless of a hard past or bad experience. It can be shown in various ways throughout a text, including the setting, the plot, and characterization. This is how the texts, The Other Wes Moore, The Art of Resilience, and The Third and Final Continent share their common theme. This theme the three texts convey is that resiliency is vital for a positive as well as successful life.
Ever going David “I am David”, is a fiction novel that tells a story about David, a kid that runs away from camp and he tries to get to Denmark while having troubles on the way. He does not know what to eat sometimes, because he has no seen most of the food and he learns a lot of things during his trip. He tries to be fair and he would not fight back to a person that was punching him because he would be no good as the person that is fighting him. After his journey he still is David. Davis is brave, he would do brave things that other people would not do.
The relationship between David and God is one of both fear and love. David, who is chosen by God to rule the people of Israel, is loved by God. However, it is clear in points of the Bible that the wrath of God overcomes his love for David. To begin with the love that God has for David, it is easy to see when David places the Ark of God in Jerusalem, officially giving it a place to rest after several years of wandering. We see this in the dialogue when it is said “And David went and brought up the Ark of God from the house of Obededom to the City of David with rejoicing” (2 Sam. 6:12). With the Ark itself
The ultimate goal here is to challenge the writer find a definitive reason for the downfall of King David who is said to be a man after God’s own heart.
David was always a type of person inclined to be melancholy. He was always a religious person. He made sure that he did everything right, because he was afraid of death. He performed all the duties of religion without a true conversion.2
Though David represents a seemingly common boy at the time, he has several qualities that make him stand out. However, these character traits are never simply told to us. Instead, the implied author uses David’s actions, decisions, and beliefs to
Although both the previous events did put David into an adverse position, the following experience changed David’s outlook on life for the better. Finally there was someone to tell David the true meaning of mankind, Uncle Axel. Uncle Axel tells him to be proud of his telepathic abilities, instead of praying to be what everyone else thinks is the true image. Uncle Axel also changes David's outlook on the true image of man, he explains to him how it's not one's physical features that define him, but what's in his mind.
Resilience means the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. It is being able to come back from a terrible situation in good spirits. In the book Unbroken, the theme of resilience is used many times. It is used most all throughout Louie’s time at the POW camps. Laura Hillenbrand has developed the theme of resilience through describing how Louie and the other POWs survived at the POW camps, which included his speaking out against the actions and trying to prove the Bird wrong, and also showed what the Japanese were going through during this time.
Resilience in an individual refers to successful adaptation, despite the risk and adversity. The manner in which Matson 2004 defines resilience is very clear to me, as I can relate and reflect this to one particular girl that resided in the care centre I worked. Throughout the young girl's childhood, she developed an insecure and ambivalent attachment to both her parents, as a result of their hectic lifestyle of substance misuse. At a young age her father died from the HIV viruses, which lead her mother in becoming depressed and profoundly dependant on drugs. Due to the mother's dependency, she was unable to respond accordingly to the girls needs, given very mixed and inconsistent responses. At the age of 10, due to extreme neglect, the young girl was removed from her mothers care and entered the care setting. Over the years the young girl had experienced several placement breakdowns, and at 13 was admitted to a residential centre. During this time she felt both a
At the age of 5 years old, not only did he began to take showers with his father, but when they went to the beach club, his mother bathed him in the shower in the presence of other naked women. By the age of 6 years old, David noticed the power men had over women, “when a male entered the women’s side of the bathhouse, all the women shrieked”. (Gale Biography). At the age of 7 and 8 years old, he experienced a series of head accidents. First, he was hit by a car and suffered head injuries. A few months later he ran into a wall and again suffered head injuries. Then he was hit in the head with a pipe and received a four inch gash in the forehead. Believing his natural mother died while giving birth to him was the source of intense guilt, and anger inside David. His size and appearance did not help matters. He was larger than most kids his age and not particularly attractive, which he was teased by his classmates. His parents were not social people, and David followed in that path, developing a reputation for being a loner. At the age of 14 years old David became very depressed after his adoptive mother Pearl, died from breast cancer. He viewed his mother’s death as a monster plot designed to destroy him. (Gale Biography). He began to fail in school and began an infatuation with petty larceny and pyromania. He sets fires,
is a fight just to survive for the next day . As a child David is taught a very harsh way of