Vogt, Christopher P., 1970-

Patience, compassion, hope, and the Christian art of dying well / Christopher P. Vogt. - Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004. - x, 161 p. ; 24 cm. - 241/.4 .

"A Sheed & Ward book."

Includes bibliogr. references (p. 141-153) and index.

A context for the task of dying : Christian virtue ethics and dying well - Dying well in historical perspective : the Ars Moriendi tradition of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - Competing visions of compassion : how should we respond to suffering? - A biblical Ars Moriendi : dying well according to Luke - Toward an Ars Moriendi for our time.

0742531856 (cloth : alk. paper) 0742531864 (pbk. : alk. paper)


Death--Religious aspects--Christianity
Suffering--Religious aspects--Christianity

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