"The tendency for Christians to move almost immediately from death to proclamations of new life risks alienating those for whom healing and new life seem out of reach," says Thompson. Glimpsing Resurrection focuses less on the "why" to help readers instead come to terms with the "how" of living with a serious disease. In particular, Thompson provides a framework and concrete suggestions for how to be a church where those who are undone by illness can be undone, as well as a place that can love and support them to hope.
"The tendency for Christians to move almost immediately from death to proclamations of new life risks alienating those for whom healing and new life seem out of reach," says Thompson. Glimpsing Resurrection focuses less on the "why" to help readers instead come to terms with the "how" of living with a serious disease. In particular, Thompson provides a framework and concrete suggestions for how to be a church where those who are undone by illness can be undone, as well as a place that can love and support them to hope.
Glimpsing Resurrection: Cancer, Trauma, and Ministry
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208Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780664262761 |
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Publisher: | Westminster John Knox Press |
Publication date: | 07/31/2018 |
Pages: | 208 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d) |