Preaching Death: The Transformation of Christian Funeral Sermons

ISBN-13: 9781481314930 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 263 str.

Lucy Bregman

Spis treści

• Part I: What Christians Used to Say about Death
• 1. A Changeover of Messages and Images
• 2. What Is a Christian Funeral?
• 3. Funeral Theologies of Death
• 4. Heaven as Home
• 5. Heaven as Journey
• 6. Natural Immortality
• 7. The Lord's Will
• Part II: The Age of Silence and Denial
• 8. "Please Omit Funeral"
• 9. The Challenge of New Theologies
• 10. Death as Enemy
• Part III: What Came Next
• 11. New Words for Death, Dying, and Grief
• 12. The Triumph of the Biographical
• Part IV: What Might Have Been
• 13. Two Alternatives
• 14. What Might Have Been—Lament
• 15. The Eclipse of Poetry
• Part V: Conclusion
• 16. What Christians No Longer Want to Say about Death