Facing Death: Theme and Variations

Facing Death: Theme and Variations
ISBN-10
0838756417
ISBN-13
9780838756416
Series
Facing Death
Category
Death
Pages
152
Language
English
Published
2006
Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Author
F. David Martin

Description

If we do not, at some point in our life, face death thinking hard and straight about it we turn away from our authenticity. If that facing rejects irrational faith, dogmas, mystifications, and personal immortality, is there yet a path free of despair?

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