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Cancer & Faith: Reflections on Living With a Terminal Illness by John Carmody
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From Publishers Weekly
In her foreword to her husband's last book, Denise Larder Carmody emphasizes that this book should not be read?it should be prayed. When he died in September 1995, John Carmody was Senior Research Fellow in Religion at Santa Clara University, but he here writes that his Ph.D. in religious studies was not the competence on which he drew for this book. In his engaging manner, Carmody states that his postdoctoral preparation for this book was the three and a half years he lived with multiple myeloma, an incurable cancer of the bone marrow. In addition, Carmody grew tired of the emptiness and pseudo-spirituality of the many contemporary books on suffering and death that announced hope but offered, instead, trite advice wholly inadequate to the task of addressing the fact of excruciating suffering and pain. Thus, in this book, Carmody writes psalms from the end of life that deal with serious illness, aging and death. These psalms, he notes, come from late night and early morning, times of sorrow and pain and fear. The psalms are structured by letters written to family and friends by Denise and John Carmody on the progress of John's illness. With his typical humor, self-effacement and insight, John Carmody has produced a contemporary psalter of laments and praise songs that is sure to lead many people through the valley of the shadow of pain and suffering.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
This collection of psalms and epistles was composed by theologian John Carmody from the time of his diagnosis with multiple myeloma in 1992 until just before his death in late 1995. The 15 epistles are "generic" letters to family and friends that document three years of "ordinary" life in the face of a terminal disease. The 75 psalms are poems addressed to God from the extraordinary depths of the spirit revealed in the encounter with death, intended to echo the movement of the canonical Psalms from lamentation to praise. John's wife, Denise Lardner Carmody (chair of the religious studies department at Santa Clara University in California), suggests in her foreword that the book is better prayed than read. Readers who follow that advice will be richly rewarded. Steve Schroeder
In her foreword to her husband's last book, Denise Larder Carmody emphasizes that this book should not be read?it should be prayed. When he died in September 1995, John Carmody was Senior Research Fellow in Religion at Santa Clara University, but he here writes that his Ph.D. in religious studies was not the competence on which he drew for this book. In his engaging manner, Carmody states that his postdoctoral preparation for this book was the three and a half years he lived with multiple myeloma, an incurable cancer of the bone marrow. In addition, Carmody grew tired of the emptiness and pseudo-spirituality of the many contemporary books on suffering and death that announced hope but offered, instead, trite advice wholly inadequate to the task of addressing the fact of excruciating suffering and pain. Thus, in this book, Carmody writes psalms from the end of life that deal with serious illness, aging and death. These psalms, he notes, come from late night and early morning, times of sorrow and pain and fear. The psalms are structured by letters written to family and friends by Denise and John Carmody on the progress of John's illness. With his typical humor, self-effacement and insight, John Carmody has produced a contemporary psalter of laments and praise songs that is sure to lead many people through the valley of the shadow of pain and suffering.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
This collection of psalms and epistles was composed by theologian John Carmody from the time of his diagnosis with multiple myeloma in 1992 until just before his death in late 1995. The 15 epistles are "generic" letters to family and friends that document three years of "ordinary" life in the face of a terminal disease. The 75 psalms are poems addressed to God from the extraordinary depths of the spirit revealed in the encounter with death, intended to echo the movement of the canonical Psalms from lamentation to praise. John's wife, Denise Lardner Carmody (chair of the religious studies department at Santa Clara University in California), suggests in her foreword that the book is better prayed than read. Readers who follow that advice will be richly rewarded. Steve Schroeder
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- Sacred Dying: Creating Rituals for Embracing the End of Life by Megory Anderson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- As I Journey on: Meditations for Those Facing Death by Sharon Dardis in Back Matter
- With an Everlasting Love: Developing an Intimate Relationship With God by William A. Barry in Back Matter
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