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“An extraordinary book. These essays are filled with wisdom because they have been written by those who have learned how to die by either being with the dying or listening to those who have learned to listen to the dying.”
— Stanley Hauerwas
Living Well and Dying Faithfully
Christian Practices for End-of-Life Care
John Swinton & Richard Payne, editors
Foreword by Stanley Hauerwas
Available October 2009
ISBN 978-0-8028-6339-3
6″ × 9″ paperback
272 pages / $25.00
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
June 17, 2009
Living Well and Dying Faithfully explores ways in which Christian practices such as love, prayer, lament, and compassion can contribute to the process of dying well. Working on the premise that one dies the way one lives, the book is unique in its constructive dialogue between theology and medicine as two complementary modes of healing.
Contributors: Esther Acolatse, Tonya Armstrong, Abigail Rian Evans, Stanley Hauerwas, Therese Lysaught, Amy Plantinga Pauw, Richard Payne, Christina Puchalski, Karen D. Scheib, Daniel P. Sulmasy, John Swinton, Allen Verhey.
John Swinton holds the chair in practical theology and pastoral care and is director of the Centre for Spirituality, Health, and Disability at the University of Aberdeen.
Richard Payne is professor of medicine and divinity at Duke Divinity School and director of the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life.