Facing death : theme and variations /
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| Author / Creator: | Martin, F. David, 1920- |
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| Imprint: | Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, c2006. |
| Description: | 152 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Death. Death. |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5883721 |
Table of Contents:
- I. Prelude
- II. Theme : facing death
- III. Variations
- 1. A taste of death
- 2. The priest
- 3. Adler, Aristotle, and Thornton Wilder
- 4. Art and truth
- 5. Dying and loneliness
- 6. Suicide
- 7. Assisted suicide
- 8. The majestic mystery
- 9. Pantheism
- 10. The sublime
- 11. The religious experience
- 12. The clergy
- 13. Truth in the sacred
- 14. Immortality and Pascal
- 15. Mourning
- 16. Extreme experiences
- 17. The remains
- IV. Recapitulation
- V. Coda
- VI. Postlude : participation and perception.
