We Love You, Matty
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-78513-6 (ISBN)
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"We Love You Matty" is disturbing, enlightening, and challenging. It is disturbing because is begins with the true story of Matty Ventresca. He was born with a severely damaged heart and given up for adoption because he was not expected to live much longer than his teens. It is enlightening because it challenges the reader's spontaneous assumptions about death and an afterlife by looking at death from the points of view of wise men and women of diverse religious traditions. It is challenging to anyone who takes seriously the findings of psychology, social studies, and history. These disciplines force us to find evidence in our everyday lives for our profoundest convictions about the spirit. In particular, Dunne proposes a "Law of Care", which integrates our ordinary experience of mortality with both findings of contemporary disciplines and spiritual faith.
Preface
Prolog
The story of Matty Ventresca's life and death.
Chapter 1: The Myths about Death
A first step in reflecting on death is to ensure that we envision it as a mystery. Several myths, unfortunately tend to obliterate that vision.
Myth: The ideal is to live forever.
Myth: There is another life coming after this one.
Myth: Everyone will experience the death of their bodies as their souls pass on.
Chapter 2: Our Many Voices
A second step in reflecting on death is to notice how people of various cultures think very differently about it. This can help us stand back and take a more objective look at our own views.
The Wisdom of Laotse • The Book of Job • The Hindu Upanishads • The Hindu Bhagavad Gita • A Buddhist Liberated From Regret • Lesson for a Buddhist Novice • The Christian Acts of the Apostles • The Muslim Koran
Chapter 3: The Image of God in Death
If God is Lord over Death, then Death is God's idea for sharing divine life with us. This means reconsidering more simplistic views of God.
A Creator of a World That Will End? • Maker of the World? • My Individual Savior? • An All-Powerful God? •
A God Watching from a Distance? • A Judge? • Does God Punish? • A Forgiving God?
Chapter 4: The Law of Care
From a scientific point of view, there is a law in the universe that accounts for the emergence of care. It also accounts for death and helps us understand what immortality must be.
Evidence for the Law • A Community-Making Law • Working with the Law • How Care Makes Community Immortal • How Care Makes History Immortal • A Contemplation of Care
Chapter 5: Voices of Redemption
From a theological point of view, there are both false and true voices about how God redeems. The true voices make it clear that death is not the enemy.
The Sheriff's Voice • The Voice of the Fans • The Language of Redemption • Redemption is About Trouble • The Redeeming Word
Chapter 6: Walking in the Shadow of Death
From a practical point of view, we need to know how to live with death in mind. This includes the deaths in every day as well as our physical deaths.
What to do with my inspirations • How to tell my story • How to tell our story • How to plan my death • How to do the will of God
Chapter 7: Meeting Death with Faith
The kind of faith necessary to meet death is surprisingly universal and yet
beguilingly ordinary.
The Shared Question • A Closing Meditation and Prayer • That Day
Sources
A list of the major sources mentioned or used.
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.08.2017 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Death, Value and Meaning Series |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Notfallmedizin | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-415-78513-8 / 0415785138 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-415-78513-6 / 9780415785136 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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