Description
In Glimpsing Resurrection, Deanna A. Thompson combines recent trauma research with compelling first-person narrative to provide insight into the traumatic dimensions of living with a serious illness. Her aim is to help those who are ill and those who care for and minister to them deepen their understanding of how best to offer support.
aEUROoeThe tendency for Christians to move almost immediately from death to proclamations of new life risks alienating those for whom healing and new life seem out of reach,aEURO says Thompson. Glimpsing Resurrection focuses less on the aEUROoewhyaEURO to help readers instead come to terms with the aEUROoehowaEURO of living with a serious disease. In particular, Thompson provides a framework and concrete suggestions for how to be a church where those who are undone by illness can be undone, as well as a place that can love and support them to hope.
About the Author
Deanna A. Thompson teaches religion at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Diagnosed with stage IV cancer in 2008, she has spent the years since talking and writing about how cancer and faith might coexist. Her books include Hoping for More: Having Cancer, Talking Faith, and Accepting Grace and The Virtual Body of Christ in a Suffering World. For more information, visit www.deannaathompson.com.
Book Information
ISBN 9780664262761
Author Deanna Thompson
Format Paperback
Page Count 208
Imprint Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S.
Publisher Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S.
