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Hope and grace : spiritual experiences in severe distress, illness and dying /

Conventional coping strategies can be pushed to their limits when people find themselves in situations of suffering, illness, and dying. Moved beyond their everyday consciousness, individuals often have spiritual experiences of grace and encounters with the transcendent or the divine. The author sho...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Renz, Monika, 1961-
Corporate Author: Alexander Street (Firm)
Other Authors: Kyburz, Mark (Translator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2016.
Subjects:
Terminally ill > Religious life.
Death > Religious aspects.
Malades en phase terminale > Vie religieuse.
Mort > Aspect religieux.
Death.
Pain Medicine.
MEDICAL.
RELIGION.
Spirituality.
Christianity.
Pastoral Resources.
Christian Ministry.
Death & Dying.
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
Christian Life.
Death > Religious aspects
Terminally ill > Religious life
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Conventional coping strategies can be pushed to their limits when people find themselves in situations of suffering, illness, and dying. Moved beyond their everyday consciousness, individuals often have spiritual experiences of grace and encounters with the transcendent or the divine. The author shows how care providers can support patients in their suffering and how they can recognize patients' spiritual experiences. Explaining different types of experiences of transcendence such as seeing angels or feelings of otherness and presence, this book will be of valuable use to professionals working in palliative and spiritual care, such as spiritual caregivers, therapists, nurses, and physicians. The book entails a new approach to spiritual care which opens a space of hope wherein grace may happen even amid pain, suffering, illness and dying.
Item Description:Introduction. 1. Spirituality is Experience. 2. Between Two Worlds: The Liminal Sphere and Its Laws. 3. Hope for Grace. 4. Experience of Transcendence as Reality and Grace. 5. Experiences of Angels and Darkness. 6. Experiences of God and the Divine. 7. Being or Relationship?. 8. Spiritual Care between Psychotherapy and Pastoral Care. 9. Spiritual Care Interventions. Appendix. References.
Physical Description:1 online resource : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781784502775
1784502774
1785920308
9781785920301