Patience, Compassion, Hope, and the Christian Art of Dying Well

by Christopher P. Vogt

Book Overview

Patience, Compassion, Hope, and the Christian Art of Dying Well combines a strong pastoral sensibility with the best of contemporary scholarship in Christian ethics to answer the pressing questions of how Christians should respond to suffering and death. By mining the rich tradition of virtue ethics, Christopher Vogt uses the virtues of patience, compassion, and hope as a framework for specifying the shape of a good death, and for naming the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742531864
• ISBN13: 9780742531864
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"