DEATH July * September 1998 Volume 7 No. 3

IN THIS ISSUE

ARTICLES ON DEATH

Death: A Call To Live.............................................................Anna Maria Pineda, R.S.M...cover
An awareness of the fragility of life yields valuable lessons

'I Do': Death as Final Free Surrender.......................................Walter J. Burghardt, S.J..............4
What should it mean for a Christian to die?

The Relentless Teacher: Tolstoy's 'Death of Ivan Ilych'..............Ginger Grab..............................6
Death pushes us to face the truth about our lives

Thinking and Talking about Death.............................................David H.C. Read......................8
Pastors are called to deal with a growing interest in death and eternal life

Take My Hand.........................................................................Martha A. Brunell...................10
Lessons learned from listening to those who are dying

Wresting With the Terrors of Death...........................................Yvonne V. Delk.....................11
Caught in the space between Good Friday and the hope of Easter morning

Death: Participation and Passage................................................Dale T. Irvin..........................12
For Christians death is a passage to new life

Death: An African Perspective...................................................Akintunde E. Akinade............14
We need to remember that our ancestors are still with us

Embracing Death.......................................................................Brian Pierce, O.P...................15
We celebrate and protect life while we embrace and prepare for death

Death Shall Have No Dominion..................................................Barbara Crafton....................16
The way to eternal life does not avoid death, but leads through it

Meaning and New Life...............................................................Dietrich Ritschl......................17
Death conceals no hidden meanings, but Good provides new meaning

A Word From Freddy................................................................Jude Siciliano........................18
Attitudes twoard the death penalty test a preacher's spiritual mettle

Living in the Face of Death.........................................................Roberta Bondi.......................20
Lessons about death learned from the early church theologians

Walking Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death...................J Gerald Janzen.....................22
Not death, but God is ultimate

Treating a Dying Patient With Respect........................................Mats G. Hansson...................24
A medical ethicist looks at the end of life

Silen Sorrow: Mourning Infertility and Pregnancy Loss................Millicent C. Feske.................26
Pastors can offer healing rituals and care to silent sufferers

QUOTATIONS ON DEATH

In the Hebrew Scriptures [28]
In the New Testament Scriptures [29]
Thoughtful Reflections [30]

BOOKS ON DEATH

Psalms of Lament by Anne Weems

IDEAS FOR PREACHING ON DEATH

Israel's Truth About Loss........................................................................Walter Brueggemann.....34
Live the Hyphen Fully..............................................................................Joan Delaplane, O.P.....36
'Evangelical' Funeral Preaching.................................................................David J. Lose...............38
Death by Suicide.....................................................................................Wally Scofield...............40
It Happened in the Twinkling of an Eye.....................................................Donald A. Hostetter.....41
Are They Alive? - Life, Death and Young Black Males.............................Harold Dean Trulear.....42
Leader's Guide for Adult Education....................................Ginger Grab and Judith Hoch Wray....43
Preaching the Lectionary: From Death to Life............................................Judith Hoch Wray........46

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