PROEFSCHRIFT ter verkrijging van de graad van Doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden, op gezag van Rector Magniicus prof.mr. My prayer and my sacrifice and my life and my death are all for God, the Lord of the worlds.

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, in cases of sudden death, coroners' verdicts of death by "visitation of God" became increasingly popular. This reflected growing reluctance to blame the dead person in a verdict of felo de se. Increasingly, sudden deaths were attributed to human accident.' By the nineteenth century, as society became more secular and Christian ideas more sophisti...

BACKGROUND When patients are facing the ends of their lives, spiritual concerns often become more important. It is argued that effective, integrated palliative care should include addressing patients' spiritual wellbeing. In 2002 the EORTC Quality of Life Group began an international study to develop an spiritual wellbeing measure for palliative patients (SWB). Spiritual wellbeing is a complex ...

Revisiting Penal Substitution Kevin D. Kennedy Assistant Professor of Theology Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary 2001 W. Seminary Drive Fort Worth, Texas 76115 Jesus paid it all, all to Him I owe; Sin had left a crimson stain, He washed it white as snow. Evangelicals, in their preaching as well as their worship, have recognized that the cross of Christ is central to the life of the beli...

The article is about the critical analysis of modern understanding “death personality”. point view early Christian teacher Eastern Church Athenagoras Athens taken as basis this consideration. His heritage “On Resurrection Dead” tells us that man an immortal being. author introduces a certain terminology to describe process immortality human nature. According Athenagoras, death ordinary process,...

Abstract This article raises the issue of human fear death. Fear death will be a problem if it is excessive and does not encourage someone to prepare for Therefore, there need study from sufism perspective look again at essence so that unnatural can least reduced. uses qualitative method with an irfani analysis technique adjusted meet approach in this study. The result paper separation humans w...

The article traces the response of the hospital chaplain witnessing ungrieved death. Linking grief with cultural recognition, the article analyzes the absence of grief on the occasion of death within outcast social spheres. It then outlines the ways chaplains both participate in the cultural norms that render lives ungrievable and, conversely, in the solidarity of God, who cares for every life ...