Returnings: Life-After-Death Experiences : A Christian View - Hardcover

Aurelio, John R.

9780826407894: Returnings: Life-After-Death Experiences : A Christian View

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826407897 ISBN 13: 9780826407894

Publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group, 1995

For every Christian, the Resurrection is the center of faith in Jesus Christ. In this remarkable book, bestselling author and educator John Aurelio focuses on resurrection experiences in modern life, and asks us once again to take seriously the Gospel statement "Know that I am with you always, until the end of the world" (Mt. 28:20).
Aurelio examines closely all the Gospel accounts of the resurrection and appearances of Jesus after his death on the cross, and looks at the lessons we can learn from attempting to understand this mystery. From more than thirty years of pastoral ministry, Aurelio recounts many examples of people dealing with death experiences, of "returnings" and "life-after-death." Interpreting these events in a Christian context, Aurelio shows how these events bring up the most fundamental and difficult questions people can ask about death and dying, the meaning of life and suffering, heaven and the afterlife.
Certain to delight, amaze and inspire his many readers, John Aurelio offers everyone new ways and new possibilities to think about, and experience, resurrection in body and spirit.

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The title of this collection is a bit misleading, suggesting supernatural stories told by people who claim to have come back from the other side of death. But it is not so much a supernatural account as an eminently natural embrace of death and embodiment. It is a series of 19 homilies grouped into three sections: "Death," "Life," and "Afterlife: Resurrection." The homilies are easy to read and full of practical insight into a style of openness and expectation that locates both death and resurrection on "this" side rather than the "other." Steve Schroeder

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