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Grief: Contemporary Theory and the Practice of Ministry is unavailable, but you can change that!

The experience of grief has been a source of intrigue and curiosity throughout history, and it continues to stimulate thought and theory in various fields of study. Unfortunately, these fields tend to function in isolation from each other. The result is a substantial disconnect between grief research, theory, and care—which has evolved greatly over the last two decades—and ministerial practice. ...

Grief is a complex experience, and some of it is mystery and paradox. We cannot understand it all, and so we must simply try to trust in “the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that [we] may be filled with all the fullness of God” (Eph. 3:19). In surprising, paradoxical, and sometimes painful ways, a wholeness may emerge from the brokenness of grief, through God’s creative love. But the journey of grief is not marked only by God’s creative activity. Because we are in relationship with God,
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