Looking at the meaning of death, and at cremation and funeral rites, this book seeks to empower the Christian Church as it develops its resources in response to contemporary needs in bereavement. What is death? Is it, as one writer put it "nothing at all"? Or is it a mystery so deep as to be as valuable as life? What, if anything, is Heaven? Are funerals intended to serve the dead or the living? Have secularism, the consumer society, the widespread use of cremation as a means of dispposal, and the growth of ecological awareness, made a difference to our attitudes to death? The contributors, who are all involved with the spiritual, practical, pastoral and theological aspects of death, attempt to answer these and other questions.
- ISBN10 0304337846
- ISBN13 9780304337842
- Publish Date 20 November 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 June 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Geoffrey Chapman
- Format Paperback
- Pages 160
- Language English