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Author Thielicke, Helmut, 1908-1986.

Title Living with death / by Helmut Thielicke ; translated by Geoffrey W. Bromiley.

Publication Info. Grand Rapids, MI : Eerdmans Pub. Co., [1983]
©1983

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  236.1 T431L    Check Shelf
Description xi, 208 pages ; 22 cm
Note Translation of: Leben mit dem Tod.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-205) and index.
Contents The beginning and the end of human life -- The personal nature of human dying -- The problem -- Defining death as a natural process -- The element that transcends a natural process -- Resistance to the truth of the ineluctability of death -- The unnatural and inconceivable character of death -- Our division into an authentic and an inauthentic part -- Excursus I on Nietzsche: Amery's thesis on the right to take one's own life -- Excursus II on Nietzsche: the problem of euthanasia -- Our division into individuals and representatives of supraindividual powers -- Our division into personality and the reflection of cosmic life (Goethe's Faust) -- The personal character of human dying -- Death and the overcoming of death in the understanding of the Old Testament -- New Testament and general biblical lines in the understanding of death -- The direction of the time-line and its preservation by death -- The ignoring of death as security -- The antithesis of death and eternal life.
Language Translation of: Leben mit dem Tod.
Subject Death -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Death -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. (OCoLC)fst00888657
Added Title Leben mit dem Tod. English
ISBN 0802835724
9780802835727
0802835224
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