Burdened agency: Christian theology and end-of-life ethics
"Burdened Agency addresses the problem of death and dying through Christian theology and ethics. In previous centuries, death was something that simply "happened" to us. To choose how or when one died was the exception, not the rule. However, due to advances in modern medicine, indivi...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Notre Dame, Indiana
University of Notre Dame Press
[2024]
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Dying
/ Terminal care
/ Theology
/ Christian ethics (motif)
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| IxTheo Classification: | NBE Anthropology NCH Medical ethics |
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Table of Contents Blurb Literaturverzeichnis |
| Summary: | "Burdened Agency addresses the problem of death and dying through Christian theology and ethics. In previous centuries, death was something that simply "happened" to us. To choose how or when one died was the exception, not the rule. However, due to advances in modern medicine, individuals are increasingly required to make concrete choices about the nature and timing of death. Modernity, with its emphasis on individualism, complicates this further because we are increasingly bereft of cultural and religious guidance regarding death. This gives rise to the phenomenon of "burdened agency": the predicament of having to make such difficult choices with so little to help us. This engaging book offers a historical and philosophical account of the origins of our situation of burdened agency, as well as a Christian solution to the problems that it raises. Looking to theologians such as Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, and Stanley Hauerwas, Pickell devises a radically countercultural approach to death and dying rooted in Christian theological commitments and enacted in the practices of baptism, Eucharist, and prayer"-- |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis Seite 181-199 |
| Physical Description: | xix, 207 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 978-0-268-20841-7 |
