The Christian Art of Dying: Learning from Jesus
Author(s): Allen D. Verhey
A renowned ethicist who himself faced death during a recent life-threatening illness, Allen Verhey in The Christian Art of Dying sets out to recapture dying from the medical world. Seeking to counter the medicalization of death that is so prevalent today, Verhey revisits the fifteenth-century Ars Moriendi, an illustrated spiritual self-help manual on "the art of dying." Finding much wisdom in that little book but rejecting its Stoic and Platonic worldview, Verhey uncovers in the biblical accounts of Jesus' death a truly helpful paradigm for dying well and faithfully.
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"Death is inevitable. But how we die is not so inflexible. In this scholarly yet deeply personal reflection on death and dying, Allen Verhey offers vital insight into how we think about dying and what kind of people we need to be if dying well is to become our new way of living." – John Swinton (University of Aberdeen)
General Fields
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- : Eerdmans
- : Eerdmans
- : 1.24
- : 01 November 2011
- : 1.00000mm X 5.75000mm X 8.75000mm
- : 01 April 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Allen D. Verhey
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 241/.69709
- : General Adult
- : 2011015870
- : 423