Interpreting death : Christian theology and pastoral practice
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Interpreting death : Christian theology and pastoral practice
Cassell, 1997
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"on behalf of The Churches' Group on Funeral Services at Cemeteries and Crematoria"
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Looking at the meaning of death, and at cremation and funeral rites, this book seeks to empower the Christian Church as it develops its resources in response to contemporary needs in bereavement. What is death? Is it, as one writer put it "nothing at all"? Or is it a mystery so deep as to be as valuable as life? What, if anything, is Heaven? Are funerals intended to serve the dead or the living? Have secularism, the consumer society, the widespread use of cremation as a means of dispposal, and the growth of ecological awareness, made a difference to our attitudes to death? The contributors, who are all involved with the spiritual, practical, pastoral and theological aspects of death, attempt to answer these and other questions.
Table of Contents
- Changing patterns - Christian beliefs about death and the after-life, Geoffrey Rowell
- to be dead is not enough, Roger Grainger
- towards a theology of transition, Paul Sheppy
- life, death and paradise - the theology of the funeral, J. Heywood Thomas
- theologies of disposal, Douglas Davies
- the needs of bereaved people at the time of the funeral, Derek Nuttall
- bereavement and belief, Peter Speck
- loss and gain, David Forrester
- confronting the abyss, Anthony Gardiner
- contemporary issues, Penelope Wilcox, Margaret Saunders, Hazel Addy
- Anglican funeral rites today and tomorrow, Michael Perham
- celebrating our journey into Christ, Geoffrey Steel
- funeral liturgies of the Free Church, John Lampard
- singing the Lord's song in a strange land, Paul Denyer
- committal in the crematorium, Tony Walter.
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