Race, Christopher (Rev.) (2012). A reconsideration of identity through death and bereavement and consequent pastoral implications for Christian ministry. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.
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Abstract
This work seeks to examine traditional Christian doctrines regarding life after death, from a pastoral perspective. The study explores new ways of interpreting the meaning in human identity, dis-innocence and forgiven-ness specifically as relating to the continuing evolution of Humankind, and offers a description of humankind as Homo sanctus. The thesis is built around three individual selected case examples of death and dying together with a constructed narrative of ‘problem dying’, and a group of five persons in a Fellowship of the Dying; it describes the development and praxis of new approaches to ministry in these areas. A number of new terms are introduced to better convey the substance of meanings. The study itself may be considered as offering significant new insight in two respects: 1. It engages with the idea that bio-death has teleological meaning within the evolution of Personhood in resurrection. 2. It offers the experiences of Christian pastoral ministry pro-actively engaging with dying as a pilgrimage into and through bio-death, in which every member of the immediate community of faith is pro-active in pilgrimage with the dying Person. The study draws on extensive cross-cultural and multi-faith experience in Britain and Africa.
| Type of Work: | Thesis (Doctorates > Ph.D.) |
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| Award Type: | Doctorates > Ph.D. |
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| College/Faculty: | Colleges (2008 onwards) > College of Arts & Law |
| School or Department: | School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion |
| Funders: | None/not applicable |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BR Christianity B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BT Doctrinal Theology D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain D History General and Old World > DT Africa |
| URI: | http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/3762 |
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