Introduction: A Working Hypothesis
“That’s the spirit!” is a common rather than a Christian idiom, something you might say in order to encourage someone...
When was the last time you thought about the beatific vision? Have you ever thought about the beatific vision?!
Let’s be honest, this hasn’t exactly...
Introduction: A Working Hypothesis
“That’s the spirit!” is a common rather than a Christian idiom, something you might say in order to encourage someone...
When was the last time you thought about the beatific vision? Have you ever thought about the beatific vision?!
Let’s be honest, this hasn’t exactly...
Rev. Steven Aguzzi, Ph. D. candidate, is associate pastor at Mt. Lebanon United Presbyterian Church and instructor of theology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA.
Through the despair and agony of life’s final moments, God’s command, “Thou may live,” resounds in the mind and heart of those flirting with ending their own lives. “The suicidal person hears this command as a light piercing the darkness, not as a command that she must live but as the good news that she is permitted, enabled, to live by God’s grace.”