Dying and Grieving: A Guide to Pastoral Ministry - Softcover

Billings, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0281055262 ISBN 13: 9780281055265

Verlag: SPCK, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

Although organized religion is in serious decline, most people still turn to the Church when they arrange a funeral. As a result, they receive help and comfort when someone close to them dies. But what can Christianity say about death that might carry conviction in today's increasingly secularized society? And how should pastoral practice change to meet changing needs? This sobering yet engagingly written book aims first of all to set dying and grieving in context. It gives those involved in or training for pastoral ministries, whether ordained or lay, a sense of how the place of religion, the nature of the funeral service and patterns of dying, mourning and grieving have changed in Britain over the past fifty years. Interspersed throughout are autobiographical stories, which earth the theoretical text and encourage readers to reflec on how they might reasonably respond to some of the difficult contemporary issues likely to arise in their own ministry. The result is a book which, in combining insights from social history, sociology, psychology and theology, makes a fresh contribution to pastoral practice today.

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The Revd Canon Dr Alan Billings is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's 'Thought for the Day' and the author of Dying and Grieving, Secular Lives Sacred Hearts, and God and Community Cohesion, all published by SPCK.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: SPCK
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0281055262
• ISBN 13: 9780281055265
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
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