Facing Death: Theme and Variations

by F. David Martin and David F. Martin

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, mystification, and personal immortality, is there yet a path free of despair? David Martin argues that participatory pantheism--the experience of the secular and the sacred both as a unity and as a mystery--provides such a path. As we age, the future shortens and the past lengthens...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611482518
• ISBN13: 9781611482515
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 152 Pages