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A renowned ethicist who himself faced death during a recent life-threatening illness, Allen Verhey in The Christian Art of Dying sets out to recapture dying from the medical world. Seeking to counter the medicalization of death that is so prevalent today, Verhey revisits the fifteenth-century Ars Moriendi, an illustrated spiritual self-help manual on "the art of dying." Finding much wisdom in that little book but rejecting its Stoic and Platonic worldview, Verhey uncovers in the biblical accounts of Jesus' death a truly helpful paradigm for dying well and faithfully. Book jacket.

Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Medicalized Dying	p. 9
From "Tame Death" to "Medicalized Death"	p. 11
Tame Death	p. 11
Medicalized Dying	p. 13
The Triumph of Death in the Medicalization of It	p. 17
In Praise of Medicine - and What Went Wrong on the Way to "Medicalization"	p. 24
In Praise of Medicine	p. 24
Fro... MORE	p. 27
Challenging "Medicalization": Patient Rights, "Natural Death," and Hospice	p. 41
Bioethics and the Movement for Patient Rights	p. 43
The Death Awareness Movement and "Natural" Death	p. 49
The Hospice Movement	p. 59
Conclusion	p. 67
The Silence and Surrender of the Church	p. 68
Ars Moriendi	p. 77
Death and the Art of Dying in the Fifteenth Century	p. 79
The Black Death and Plague	p. 80
The "Great Schism" in the Western Church	p. 83
Jean Charlier Gerson and His Pastoral Handbook at Constance	p. 85
Ars Moriendi	p. 86
The "Commendacion of Death"	p. 89
Should We Commend the "Commendacion" of Death?	p. 93
The "Temptacions" and the Virtues	p. 110
The Temptation to Lose Faith	p. 111
The Virtue of Faith	p. 113
The Temptation to Despair	p. 115
The Virtue of Hope	p. 117
The Temptation to Impatience	p. 120
The Virtues of Love and Patience	p. 122
The Temptation to Pride	p. 125
The Virtue of Humility	p. 127
The Temptation to Avarice	p. 130
The Virtue of "Letting Go"	p. 130
The Death of Moriens	p. 134
The Temptations and the Virtues: An Assessment	p. 136
The Deathbed Drama	p. 138
The Virtues	p. 145
"Interrogaciones," "Instruccions," and Prayers	p. 157
The "Interrogaciones"	p. 157
The "Interrogaciones": An Assessment	p. 160
The "Instruccion": Christ as Paradigm	p. 161
The "Instruccion": An Assessment	p. 163
An "Instruccion" to Friends and Caregivers	p. 164
An "Instruccion" to Friends and Caregivers: An Assessment	p. 169
Prayers	p. 170
Prayers: An Assessment	p. 171
Faith and Faithfulness in the Face of Death: Toward a Contemporary Ars Moriendi	p. 173
A "Commendacion" of Life	p. 176
The Resurrection	p. 176
Israel's Hope and Consolation	p. 179
The Resurrection of Jesus	p. 193
The Hope of the Church	p. 197
Life Is Good - but Not the Greatest Good	p. 214
The "Instruccion": Remember and Follow Jesus	p. 216
Cautions	p. 216
Gethsemane	p. 220
No Gethsemane: The Difference John Makes	p. 222
The Words from the Cross	p. 226
Remembering the Caregivers	p. 251
The Virtues for Dying Well	p. 255
Faith	p. 256
Hope	p. 261
Love	p. 270
Patience	p. 278
Humility	p. 283
Letting Go/Serenity/Generosity	p. 289
Courage	p. 293
The Practices of Christian Community and the Practices of Dying Well and Caring Well for the Dying	p. 295
Gathering on the Lord's Day	p. 300
The Practice of Gathering	p. 300
The Practice of Reading Scripture Together	p. 301
The Practice of Prayer	p. 303
The Practice of the Sacraments	p. 325
Some Practices Old and New	p. 333
The Practices of Mourning and Comforting	p. 334
The Practice of Funerals	p. 344
The Practice of Remembering Saints	p. 350
The Practice of Catechesis	p. 356
The Practice of Advance Directives	p. 357
The Practice of Discourse and Discernment	p. 363
The Practice of Care	p. 377
Last Words	p. 386
Subject and Name Index	p. 395
Scripture Index	p. 404
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Allen Verhey is professor of theological ethics at Duke Divinity School. His other books include Reading the Bible in the Strange World of Medicine, Nature and Altering It, and Remembering Jesus: Christian Community, Scripture, and the Moral Life.

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