Posts Tagged "bk-death&dying"

Naming the Silences

By Stanley Hauerwas Why does a good and all-powerful God allow us to experience such pain and suffering? This question, so often asked, has been approached in a variety of ways. In this illuminating and powerful book, Hauerwas explores why we seek explanations for suffering and evil so desperately in today’s world. He draws on true cases of ill and dying children to illustrate and clarify his discussion of these theological...

Life’s Living Toward Dying: A Theological and Medical-Ethical Study

By Vigen Guroian In the past several years our culture’s long-standing prohibitions against suicide and euthanasia have been seriously challenged. A great tidal change in morality and law may be occurring as the courts seem to be creating a new right — the individual’s right to die. Life’s Living toward Dying responds to this challenge. Vigen Guroian discusses society’s moral confusion over the meaning of death...

On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families

By Elisabeth Kübler-Ross One of the most important psychological studies of the late twentieth century, On Death and Dying grew out of Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s famous interdisciplinary seminar on death, life, and transition. In this remarkable book, Dr. Kübler-Ross first explored the now-famous five stages of death: denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Through sample interviews and conversations, she...

The Grace in Dying: A Message of Hope, Comfort, and Spiritual Transformation

By Kathleen D. Singh   In this brilliantly conceived and beautifully written book, Kathleen Dowling Singh illuminates the profound psychological and spiritual transformations experiences by the dying as the natural process of death reconnects them with the source of their being. Examining the end of life in the light of current psychological understanding, religious wisdom, and compassionate medical science, The Grace of Dying offers...

More Than a Parting Prayer: Lessons in Care-Giving for the Dying

By William H. Griffith   William H. Griffith offers a book that can be used by anyone — layperson or clergy — who wants to learn about what is important to those who are dying. Through powerful and moving stories drawn from his 20-plus years of experience in chaplain ministry, Griffith provides lessons for caregivers who walk with others through the “Valley of the Shadow of Death.” Through Griffith’s poignant stories, readers will...