Reflections on Grief and Spiritual Growth - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0687065089 ISBN 13: 9780687065080

Publisher: Abingdon Press, 2005

Synopsis

Reflections on Grief and Spiritual Growth includes eighteen reflections by Protestant and Catholic writers, creative voices in the Christian community, who reflect on their experiences with grief and loss as a part of their faith journey. Each writer considers such questions as:

• What lessons and wisdom can be shared from his or her personal experiences with grief?

• In what ways did these losses shape their lives and spiritual journeys?

• What counsel does our Christian heritage offer us as we grieve the loss of a parent, spouse, child, marriage, job or health?

• How has mourning a loss diminished or deepened one's faith?

• Have spiritual resources been helpful in addressing the anger, guilt and depression that is often a part of the grieving process?

• Has faith been an asset or not as one faces the increasing and cumulative losses of growing older?

• Have persons experienced spiritual growth or transformation from traumatic losses?

An included study guide helps individuals and groups grapple with the reality of grief and loss in the context of their Christian faith so that we may better learn to grieve as those who have hope.

About this title

About the Author:

Rev. Dr. Andrew Weaver is an ordained UM minister with 22 years' experience in ministry and a Clinical Psychologist. He is the associate publisher for Zion's Herald, a an independent religious journal of opinion, news, and reflection published by the Boston Wesleyan Association.

He has co-written or edited more than seven books published by Abingdon Press, including Reflections on Marriage and Spiritual Growth, Reflections on Forgiveness and Spiritual Growth, Reflections on Aging and Spiritual Growth, Counseling Troubled Older Adults, Counseling Troubled Teens and Their Families, and Counseling Families Across the Lifespan. Has worked extensively with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) survivors, a diagnosis that underlies this new book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Abingdon Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0687065089
• ISBN 13: 9780687065080
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168
• Editor: Weaver Andrew J.