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Love & Death: My Journey Through the Valley of the Shadow - Softcover

Church, Forrest

 
9780807072974: Love & Death: My Journey Through the Valley of the Shadow
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0807072974 ISBN 13: 9780807072974
Verlag: BEACON PR, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Nearing his final days, a beloved Unitarian minister meditates on life, love, and death: "The goal is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for."

On a February day in 2008, Forrest Church sent a letter to the members of his congregation, informing them that he had terminal cancer; his life would now be measured in months, not years. He went on to promise that he would sum up his thoughts on the topics that had been so pervasive in his work--love and death--in a final book.

Church has been justly celebrated as a writer of American history, but his works of spiritual guidance have been especially valued for their insight and inspiration. As a minister, Church defined religion as "our human response to the dual reality of being alive and having to die." The goal of life, he tells us "is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for." Love & Death is imbued with ideas and exemplars for achieving that goal, and the stories he offers--all drawn from his own experiences and from the lives of his friends, family, and parishioners--are both engrossing and enlightening. Forrest Church's final work may be his most lasting gift to his readers.

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Forrest Church (1948-2009) served almost three decades as senior minister and was Minister of Public Theology of All Souls, a Unitarian Universalist congregation in New York City. He was educated at Stanford University, Harvard Divinity School, and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in early church history. He wrote or edited twenty-five books, including Life Lines, Lifecraft, The American Creed, Freedom from Fear, So Help Me God, Love & Death, and The Cathedral of the World.

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Verlag
BEACON PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0807072974
ISBN 13 
9780807072974
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
145
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