Struck – One Christian`s Reflections on Encountering Death

Russ Ramsey, Scott Sauls (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

176 Seiten

2017
Inter-Varsity Press,US (Verlag)
978-0-8308-4494-4 (ISBN)

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What happens when you come face-to-face with your mortality? As Russ Ramsey faced the possibility of death, he grappled with fear, anger, depression, and loss, and yet he experienced grace that filled him with a hope and hunger for the life to come. This profoundly eloquent memoir reveals that in the midst of pain, we can see glimpses of eternity.

EPA 2018 Christian Book Award Finalist - Biography and Memoir

"When my doctor told me I was dying, I came alive."

What happens when you come face-to-face with your mortality? When your body fails you, what happens to your faith?

Russ Ramsey was struck by a bacterial infection that destroyed his mitral valve, sending him into heart failure and requiring urgent open-heart surgery. As he faced the possibility of death, he found himself awakened to new realities. In the critical days and months that followed, Ramsey came to see the world through the eyes of affliction. He grappled with fear, anger, depression, and loss, and yet he experienced grace through the suffering that filled him with a hope and hunger for the life to come.

This profoundly eloquent memoir gives voice to the deepest questions of the human condition. In the midst of pain, we can see glimpses of eternity.

Russ Ramsey is a pastor at Christ Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tennessee, where he lives with his wife and four children. His writing has appeared at The Rabbit Room, The Gospel Coalition, The Art House, and He Reads Truth. He is the author of Behold the Lamb of God and was awarded the 2016 Christian Book Award from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association for his book Behold the King of Glory.

Foreword by Scott Sauls

Part I: Affliction (Month 1)

1. Learning to See: Affliction and Faith

2. Struck: The Onset of Affliction

3. The Sacramental Echo: Diagnosis

4. Trail Magic: Hospitalization and Adaptation

5. The Distance: The Space Between the Sick and the Well

6. The Letters: Putting a House in Order

7. Scowling at the Angel: Surgery and Waking Up

Part II: Recovery (Months 2–5)

8. Scar Tissue: Physical Healing and Resiliency

9. Monster in the Dark: Depression

10. Charlie and the Man in the Mask: The Sacred Work of Rehabilitation

11. A Tornado in a Trailer Park: Anger and Ego

Part III: Lament (Months 6–22)

12. Seeing with Clearer Eyes: Recognizing the Need to Lament

13. Barbara: Returning to the Work of Burden Bearing

14. A Song of Lament: A Year of Grappling with Suffering Before God

Part IV: Doxology (Months 23–24)

15. To Climb a Mountain: Finding a Way Forward

16. The Bird and the Boy: A Doxology of Praise

Afterword: A Wife's Response to Her Husband's Affliction

Acknowledgments

Notes

Erscheinungsdatum	12.03.2017
Verlagsort	Illinois
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 209 mm
Gewicht	214 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
ISBN-10	0-8308-4494-5 / 0830844945
ISBN-13	978-0-8308-4494-4 / 9780830844944
Zustand	Neuware