Christian Art of Dying: Learning from Jesus

by Allen Verhey

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802866727
• ISBN13: 9780802866721
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 423 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"