num_pages: 158
description: WHY?YOU REVELLED DEEPLY IN YOUR PAINUNTIL, WITH ONLY DEATH TO GAIN,GAVE ONE LAST CRY TO SEVER HURT-THEN ONE LAST FIERCE GOODBYEGwendolyn C. CarrOne December day, the daughter-in-law of Lloyd and Gwendolyn Carr shot herself. Like any suicide, this one left a family with immense pain and many questions. But unlike most families surviving a suicide, this one included a trained biblical scholar and a sensitive poet.Besides facing and attempting to deal with the unavoidable grief, Lloyd Carr found himself reviewing Scripture and church history to determine exactly what Christians think of suicide. Gwendolyn Carr wrote a series of penetrating and healing poems on this most sensitive of subjects.The result is a book that not only will comfort those who live on after a loved one has committed suicide, but offers solid guidance for those who worry about the eternal fate of that loved one. It also will prove a reliable and readable summary of Christian thinking about suicide-of use to pastors, counselors or students and teachers.G. Lloyd Carr (Ph.D., Boston University) is professor of biblical and theological studies at Gordon College. He is the author of Song of Solomon, a Tyndale Old Testament Commentary. Gwendolyn Carr has published her poetry in several magazines and is the author of Stars and Songs.
language: English
title: The Fierce Goodbye: Hope in the Wake of Suicide
titlecomplete: The Fierce Goodbye: Hope in the Wake of Suicide
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Intervarsity Pr