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Nicholas Wolterstorff's 25 year-old son Eric was killed in a mountaineering accident in the Alps, and this book charts his agonized response to the sense of irrevocable loss and absence that began with the numbing news of Eric's death. Eschewing pious sentiment for a much more honest and tough-minded approach to the appalling irreversibility of death, and exploring all the facets of his experience, the author rejects any easy options in the attempt to place his grief in a Christian context.
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Nicholas Wolterstorff is an American philosopher and currently the Noah Porter Emeritus Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale University.
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Wolterstorff, a well-known Christian philosopher, lost his 25-year-old son to a mountain climbing accident. His reflections in the wake of that tragedy are at times deeply personal, but always he expresses a prayerful anguish with which most bereaved parents will identify. Above all he refuses to turn from the "demonic awfulness" of death and, as he moves faithfully through grief, discovers new meaning in the Beatitudes, together with a new understanding of a suffering God. Spiritually enriching and theologically substantive. EC
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- PublisherSpck Publishing
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0281050945
- ISBN 13 9780281050949
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages112
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