The Christian Art of Dying: Learning from Jesus

The Christian Art of Dying: Learning from Jesus
ISBN-10
0802866727
ISBN-13
9780802866721
Category
Medical
Pages
409
Language
English
Published
2011-11-28
Publisher
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Author
Allen Verhey

Description

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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