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Publication
Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN
0802866727 / 9780802866721
Description
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 worldview, Verhey uncovers in the biblical accounts of Jesus' death a truly helpful paradigm for dying well and faithfully.
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CONTENTS:
Part 1. Medicalized dying -- From "tame death" to "medicalized death" -- In praise of medicine : and what went wrong on the way to "medicalization" -- Challenging "medicalization" : patient rights, "natural death," and hospice -- The silence and surrender of the church -- Part 2. Ars moriendi -- Death and the art of dying in the fifteenth century -- The "commendation of death" -- The "temptacions" and the virtues -- The temptations and the virtues : an assessment -- "Interrogaciones," "instructions," and prayers -- Part 3. Faith and faithfulness in the face of death : toward a contemporary ars moriendi -- A "commendacion" of life -- The "instruction" : remember and follow Jesus -- The virtues for dying well -- Part 4. The practices of Christian community and the practices of dying well and caring well for the dying -- Gathering on the Lord's day -- Some practices old and new -- The practice of care -- Last words.
Part 1. Medicalized dying -- From "tame death" to "medicalized death" -- In praise of medicine : and what went wrong on the way to "medicalization" -- Challenging "medicalization" : patient rights, "natural death," and hospice -- The silence and surrender of the church -- Part 2. Ars moriendi -- Death and the art of dying in the fifteenth century -- The "commendation of death" -- The "temptacions" and the virtues -- The temptations and the virtues : an assessment -- "Interrogaciones," "instructions," and prayers -- Part 3. Faith and faithfulness in the face of death : toward a contemporary ars moriendi -- A "commendacion" of life -- The "instruction" : remember and follow Jesus -- The virtues for dying well -- Part 4. The practices of Christian community and the practices of dying well and caring well for the dying -- Gathering on the Lord's day -- Some practices old and new -- The practice of care -- Last words.