Death our future
Subtitle: Christian theology and pastoral practice in funeral ministry
By: edited by Peter C. Jupp
Publisher: Epworth
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780716206385
Subjects: Death; Christianity; Bereavement; Funeral rites and ceremonies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-263) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Geoffrey Rowell; title: The context of Christian funeral ministry today  -- Peter C. Jupp; title: Dealing with disasters: issues for clergy in responding to collective tragedy  -- Anne Eyre; title: Before and after the death of a child  -- Ann Dent; title: Death in hospital  -- Mark Cobb; title: Contemporary perspectives on grief and bereavement  -- Christine Valentine; title: Changing Christian beliefs about the afterlife  -- Peter C. Jupp; title: Resurrection and immortality of the soul  -- Douglas J. Davies; title: Concepts of heaven and hell in the modern era  -- Paul Badham; title: The past, present and future of burial  -- Leonie Kellaher; title: Overcoming 'an architecture of reluctance': British crematoria, past, present and future  -- Hilary J. Grainger; title: Ashes to ashes, dust to dust: a theology for burial  -- Kevin McGinnell; title: Theology in ashes: how the churches have gone wrong over cremation  -- John Lampard; title: The challenge of green burial  -- Peter Owen Jones; title: The Church of England's Common Worship funeral services  -- Trevor Lloyd; title: The Roman Catholic experience: change in a new century  -- Tony Rogers; title: Free church liturgies  -- Paul P. J. Sheppy; title: Orthodox liturgy, theology and pastoral practice  -- John Nankivell; title: Music at funerals: the challenge of keeping in tune with the needs of the bereaved  -- Brian Parsons; title: Funerals in the multi-cultural metropolis: a hospital chaplain's perspective  -- Mia Hilborn; title: Characteristics of Scottish funerals  -- Derek Murray; title: Funeral ministry in Wales  -- Keith Denison; title: Funerals in Northern Ireland -- Godfrey Brown.