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Corpse Care
- Author
- Mikeal C. Parsons
- Narrator
- Tom Parks
- Publisher
- ChristianAudio.com
- Publish Date
- 27 June 2023
- Run Time
- 5 hours 16 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Death and the treatment of the dead body loom large in our collective, cultural consciousness. The authors explore the materiality and meaning of the dead body and the living's relationship to it. All the biggest questions facing the planetary human community relate in one way or another to the corpse. Surprisingly, Christian communities are largely missing in the discussion of the dead, having abdicated the historic role in care for the dead to the funeral industry. Christianity has stopped its reflection about the body once that body no longer bears life. Corpse Care stakes a claim that the fact of embodiment, this incarnational truth, this process of our bodily becoming, is a practical, ethical, and theological necessity.
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Details
- Author
- Mikeal C. Parsons
- Narrator
- Tom Parks
- Duration
- 5 hours 16 minutes
- Release Date
- 27 June 2023
- ISBN
- 9781545924617
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- ChristianAudio.com
- Genre
- Christianity, Theology, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender and relationships, Ethnic studies
Synopsis
Corpse Care relates the history of death care in the US to craft robust, constructive, practical ethics for tending the dead. It specifically relates corpse care to economic, environmental, and pastoral concerns.Death and the treatment of the dead body loom large in our collective, cultural consciousness. The authors explore the materiality and meaning of the dead body and the living's relationship to it. All the biggest questions facing the planetary human community relate in one way or another to the corpse. Surprisingly, Christian communities are largely missing in the discussion of the dead, having abdicated the historic role in care for the dead to the funeral industry. Christianity has stopped its reflection about the body once that body no longer bears life. Corpse Care stakes a claim that the fact of embodiment, this incarnational truth, this process of our bodily becoming, is a practical, ethical, and theological necessity.
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