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Burdened Agency

- Christian Theology and End-of-Life Ethics
Af: Travis Pickell Engelsk Hardback

Burdened Agency

- Christian Theology and End-of-Life Ethics
Af: Travis Pickell Engelsk Hardback
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Travis Pickell explores the paradoxes of choice in modern dying and the ways Christian theology can aid in navigating the relationship between moral agency and dignity at the end of life.

Burdened Agency addresses the problem of death and dying through Christian theology and ethics. In previous centuries, death was something that simply “happened” to us. To choose how or when one died was the exception, not the rule. However, due to advances in modern medicine, individuals are increasingly required to make concrete choices about the nature and timing of death. Modernity, with its emphasis on individualism, complicates this further because we are increasingly bereft of cultural and religious guidance regarding death. This gives rise to the phenomenon of “burdened agency”: the predicament of having to make such difficult choices with so little to help us.

This engaging book offers a historical and philosophical account of the origins of our situation of burdened agency, as well as a Christian solution to the problems that it raises. Looking to theologians such as Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, and Stanley Hauerwas, Pickell devises a radically countercultural approach to death and dying rooted in Christian theological commitments and enacted in the practices of baptism, Eucharist, and prayer.

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Travis Pickell explores the paradoxes of choice in modern dying and the ways Christian theology can aid in navigating the relationship between moral agency and dignity at the end of life.

Burdened Agency addresses the problem of death and dying through Christian theology and ethics. In previous centuries, death was something that simply “happened” to us. To choose how or when one died was the exception, not the rule. However, due to advances in modern medicine, individuals are increasingly required to make concrete choices about the nature and timing of death. Modernity, with its emphasis on individualism, complicates this further because we are increasingly bereft of cultural and religious guidance regarding death. This gives rise to the phenomenon of “burdened agency”: the predicament of having to make such difficult choices with so little to help us.

This engaging book offers a historical and philosophical account of the origins of our situation of burdened agency, as well as a Christian solution to the problems that it raises. Looking to theologians such as Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, and Stanley Hauerwas, Pickell devises a radically countercultural approach to death and dying rooted in Christian theological commitments and enacted in the practices of baptism, Eucharist, and prayer.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 228
ISBN-13: 9780268208417
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0268208417
Kategori: Religion og etik
Udg. Dato: 15 aug 2024
Længde: 20mm
Bredde: 236mm
Højde: 159mm
Forlag: University of Notre Dame Press
Oplagsdato: 15 aug 2024
Forfatter(e): Travis Pickell
Forfatter(e) Travis Pickell

Kategori Religion og etik

ISBN-13 9780268208417

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 228

Udgave

Længde 20mm

Bredde 236mm

Højde 159mm

Udg. Dato 15 aug 2024

Oplagsdato 15 aug 2024

Forlag University of Notre Dame Press

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