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A Cross-Shattered Church: Reclaiming the Theological Heart of Preaching by  Stanley Hauerwas We live in a death-denying world that seems determined to develop technologies that will enable us to get out of life alive. Yet the more we strive to be free of death the more our lives are shaped by the death-determined means we create to try to free ourselves of death. Even more paradoxical, the means we use to free ourselves from death only serve to increase our isolation from one another. We fear the loneliness we think death entails, but it turns out that the loneliness we fear death entails is the expression of the loneliness made unavoidable by our attempts to avoid death. Jesus raised his friend Lazarus from the dead. But Lazarus is still to die. We are still to die. Jesus, by contrast, has been raised never again to die. His death makes possible a communion that overwhelms the loneliness our sin creates. ... That feast we call Eucharist, for in eating it we are made “living member...

Gentle Regrets by Roger Scruton Sexual Desire Roger Scruton

You’ve said that at both the University of Sydney and the University of Cambridge, you were “a bad student” who consistently read off-course. To the ears of my  contemporaries, reading off-course is the sort of procrastination that qualifies being a good student. Now, with the internet, we have so many distractions that is  almost impossible to stay focused on any one thing at a time, and work is scarcely one of them. Do you worry about the future of literature in this virtual  environment? Literature will win through the way it always has, by being too valuable to be ignored. All you have to do is write something as good as  Pride and Prejudice . A  cinch. Finally, do you have any advice for young writers? When the young writers ask me for advice, I give them the same advice as I give my niece: stop right now if you can. The Meaning of Recognition by Clive James Flying Visits Clive James

On Caring by Milton Mayeroff  Genetics of Psychopathology by David Rosenthal  The Psychiatric Interview by Harry Stack Sullivan  The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas Szasz  Foundations for Personality Study by Adrian van Kaam  The Inner World of Childhood by Frances Wickes   The Power of Appreciation by Adrian van Kaam  The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker Image Guidance and Healing by Elizabeth-Anne Vanek  

Christian Life Patterns by Evelyn Whitehead   The Sacred Canopy by Peter Berger The Social Construction of Reality by Peter Berger  The Informed Heart by Bruno Bettelheim  A Different Existence by van den Berg Games People Play by Eric Berne  The Sociology of Mental Disorders by William Eaton  New Ways in Psychoanalysis by Karen Horney  The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James  On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The most beautiful inheritance, the greatest inheritance a man, a woman, can leave to their children is the faith.  From the homily Thinking about death is “a light that illuminates life” and “a reality that we should always have before us” [...] "In one of the Wednesday audiences there was among those who were sick a very old sister, but with face of peace, a luminous countenance: ‘But how old are you, sister?’ With a smile she said, ‘Eighty-three, but I am finishing my course in this life, to begin another with the Lord, because I have pancreatic cancer.’ And so, in peace, that woman had lived her consecrated life with great intensity. She did not fear death: ‘I am finishing my course of life, to begin another.’ It is a passage. These things do us good.” [...]  “What is the inheritance I will leave with my life?”  “Will I leave the inheritance of a man, a woman of faith? Will I leave this inheritance to my children? Let us ask two things of the Lord: to not be...

On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross The Politics of Family by R. D. Laing Knots by R. D. Laing  The Politics of Experience by R. D. Laing  Interpersonal Perception by R. D. Laing Love and Will by Rollo May  Man's Search for Himself by Rollo May  On Caring by Milton Mayeroff  The Vital Balance by Karl Menninger  Love Against Hate by Karl Menninger  Whatever Became of Sin? by Karl Menninger   

Classics of Analytic Philosophy by Robert Ammerman   Before Revelation by Kevin Reinhart   The Conspiracy of Life by Jason Wirth   The Puritan Smile by Robert Neville   Simone Weil: Thinking Poetically by Joan Dargan   Matter and Consciousness by Paul Churchland   The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker   Remembrance of the Future by Michael O'Brien