{"product_id":"dying-for-life-bradley-jersak-9798386720827","title":"Dying For Life: How Jesus' Passion Reframes Life \u0026 Death as Dying \u0026 Rebirth","description":"What if, rather than dread or denial, Christ calls us to embrace death as a journey in stages, through growth in the womb of this life toward our rebirth into the next? Dr. Steve Mitchinson compares this proposition with his own observations as a palliative care physician, teaching readers to be midwives for those about to emerge into their full humanity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMitchinson asks, \"Have we truly understood how life is intended to be a preparation for our physical death? What if death is something to be embraced, not avoided, a journey where we practice dying in stages until we are reborn from the womb of this life in which we grow?\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough his Incarnation and Passion, Jesus reveals that to be fully human necessarily includes death. Through his physical death, he reveals himself as God, the ultimate \u003ci\u003ekenosis\u003c\/i\u003e, completing the work of creation with his final breath: \"It is finished!\" It is this \"image of God\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003e in which we are created. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe are invited into this death by \"putting on\u003ci\u003e\" \u003c\/i\u003eChrist through the sacrament of baptism-to \"take up our cross\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eand embrace the martyr's life-to fully live and be reborn. This book explores concepts of a \"good life\" and a \"good death\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003e in the context of the Passion of Christ and what a union with the source of all life through the Cross might mean. Death is defeated and transformed from a terminal destination into the birth canal to true humanity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bradley Jersak, J. Stephen Mitchinson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 8386720824\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798386720827\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/20\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.29d","brand":"Bradley Jersak","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44130258026751,"sku":"9798386720827","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e505ebbc-0765-4387-952b-60310c355176.jpg?v=1687468406","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dying-for-life-bradley-jersak-9798386720827","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}