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020			_a9781138053465
028			_a: Zafaa Books & Distributor _b: 313/103A, H.No.-15, Tulsi Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi _c: ZBD0075 _d: 14/06/2024
082			_a236.108 RID
100			_aRiso, Mary.
245			_aThe Narrative of the Good Death _b: The Evangelical Deathbed in Victorian England. _c/Mary Riso.
260			_a, New York _b: Routledge _c, 2017.
300			_axvi, 276p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b3353
520			_aThe Christian idea of a good death had its roots in the Middle Ages with ars moriendi, featuring reliance on Jesus as Savior, preparedness for the life to come and for any spiritual battle that might ensue when on the threshold of death, and death not taking place in isolation. Evangelicalism introduced new features to the good death, with its focus on conversion, sanctification and an intimate relationship with Jesus. Scholarship focused on mid-nineteenth-century evangelical Nonconformist beliefs about death and the afterlife is sparse. This book fills the gap, contributing an understanding not only of death but of the history of Methodist and evangelical Nonconformist piety, theology, social background and literary expression in mid-nineteenth-century England. A good death was as central to Methodism as conversion and holiness. Analyzing over 1,200 obituaries, Riso reveals that while the last words of the dying pointed to a timeless experience of hope in the life to come, the obituaries reflect changing attitudes towards death and the afterlife among nineteenth-century evangelical Nonconformist observers who looked increasingly to earthly existence for the fulfillment of hopes. Exploring tensions in Nonconformist allegiance to both worldly and spiritual matters, this book offers an invaluable contribution to death studies, Methodism, and Evangelical theology.
650			_aChristian idea
650			_agood death
650			_aMethodism
700			_aMary Riso
942			_cBOOK
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