SufferingJohn Calvin on Death and Grief
It's hard to picture John Calvin grieving, or writing tender letters to bereaved friends. Nixon shows that we should picture exactly that. The Reformed tradition's reputation for being rigorous-but-cold is…
Journal Theology Matters Volume 24 · Issue 2 · Spring 2018 Finding Joy on the Journey of Grief
The Print Journal
2018 Spring
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In this issue
SufferingThe Reformed Pastor Confronts the “Last Enemy”
Death blows the empty clichés out of pastoral ministry like an umbrella in a hurricane. McSween focuses on the funeral service and sermon as the place where a Reformed pastor…
SufferingFinding Joy on the Journey of Grief
Lewis wrote A Grief Observed after losing Joy Davidman to cancer in 1960. Barnes reads Lewis through his own grief after his wife Lorie's death in 2016, and finds something…