The Christian Art of Dying
Author | : Allen Verhey |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2011-11-28 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0802866727 |
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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.