Preaching death : the transformation of Christian funeral sermons
Lucy Bregman
Bok · Engelsk · 2011
| Utgitt | Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press , cop. 2011
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| Omfang | vii, 255 s.
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| Opplysninger | pt. 1. What Christians used to say about death. A changeover of messages and images -- What is a Christian funeral? -- Funeral theologies of death -- Heaven as home -- Heaven as journey -- Natural immortality -- The Lord's will -- pt. 2. The age of silence and denial. "Please omit funeral" -- The challenge of new theologies -- Death as enemy -- pt. 3. What came next. New words of death, dying, and grief -- The triumph of the biographical -- pt. 4. What might have been. Two alternatives -- What might have been : lament -- The eclipse of poetry -- pt. 5. Conclusion. What Christians no longer want to say about death.
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| ISBN | 160258320X. - 9781602583207
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