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Death and ministry : pastoral care of the dying and the bereaved / J. Donald Bane [and others] editors.

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Part I. Personal Perspectives -- A personal odyssey : experiencing the human / Peter H. Beisheim -- A crisis / Judith Best -- The impact of the death of patients on the minister's (chaplain's) faith / John M. Humphreys -- Vignette / Zelda Foster -- To write about death, we must contemplate our own death / Cima Star -- Response to the threat of death, immediate and/or postponed / Carroll A. Wise -- Part II. Ministry to the dying -- Ministry to the dying as a learning encounter / Carl A. Nightswonger -- Another look at the hopeless chase / Joseph R. Proulx -- The waiting vulture syndrome / Glenn W. Davidson -- Prayer and the dying patient : intimacy without exposure / Daniel C. DeArment -- The dying patient's concept of God / David H.C. Read -- The psychological function of religion to the dying patient / Edgar Draper -- Communication and pain / Kenneth A. Chandler -- Part III. Ministry to the bereaved -- The cup of Mithradetes / William L. Nate, Jr. -- Bereavement : an opportunity for emotional growth / Harry S. Olin and Grace B. Olin -- Mourning, family dynamics, and pastoral care / Richard G. Bruehl -- Consoling the bereaved in the weeks after the funeral / Walter Debold -- The grief work cycle in Judaism / Steven Moss -- The bereaved in the hospital / Carleton J. Sweetser -- Bereavement : a pediatric view / Rudolf Toch -- Divorce and grief / John Freund -- Part IV. Clergy and the medical professionals -- Problems which confront the minister / Edward F. Dobihal -- The clergyman as the dying patient's agent / Robert M. Veatch -- The physician's ministry to the dying / James A. Knight -- Alternatives to cure in ministration to the dying / Joseph R. Proulx -- Learning to talk with the cancer patient / Arnoldus Goudsmit -- Ministerial leadership in thanatology / J. William Worden -- The minister as part of health care team / J. Donald Bane and Elizabeth Dorsey I. Smith -- Part V. What does death mean? -- The agnostic and the religious : their coping with death / Paul E. Irion -- The concept of bereavement / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. -- Bereavement in New Testament perspective / Schuyler P. Brown -- The trouble with the concept "death" / George M. Schurr -- Perspectives on death : philosophical and theological / James M. Demske -- Mortality and the fear of death / Lloyd R. Bailey -- Developing a theology of death / Peter H. Beisheim -- Death and incarnation / William B. Frazier.

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BV4330.D34

Publisher

New York : Seabury Press., 1975

Physical Description

ix, 278 pages ; 24 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0816402604

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Subject(s)

Practical Theology
Death. Bereavement -- Religious aspects -- Christ

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