Travis Pickell is an assistant professor of theology and ethics at George Fox University, where he also directs the Character Virtue Initiative and the Cornerstone Core curriculum.
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Acknowledgements Introduction: The Landscape of Modern Dying 1. Burdened Agency 2. Scripts for Dying 3. Persons, Freedom, and a Catholic Spirituality of Martyrdom 4. Karl Barth on Agency-in-Dying: Accepting Creaturely Finitude 5. Stanley Hauerwas on Agency-in-Dying: Ethics of Dispossession 6. Prayer, Baptism, and Eucharist Conclusion: Humanity Sub Specie Mortis Bibliography Index
"Well organized, thoughtful, and compelling, and deserves a broad readership." -Joel Shuman, co-author of Reclaiming the Body "Travis Pickell has given us a wise, timely, and lucidly written book. 'How to die well?' is a perennial question, but more choice and less cultural guidance have made it profoundly challenging. Drawing on Rahner, Barth, Hauerwas, and others, Pickell offers a path through this unavoidable thicket, a deeply Christian ethic of receptivity to the gift of our finitude and of openness to God's providential care." -Joseph E. Davis, co-editor of The Evening of Life "Our society is strongest when religious communities, strengthened by the sort of moral formation that Pickell writes about so eloquently, join with others to protect and care for the most vulnerable." -Hedgehog Review