Facing the Death of Someone You Love

by Elisabeth Elliot

Year 1985
Type Other
Genre pastoral theology
Tradition Evangelical
Original language English

For For someone newly bereaved who wants a few pages of comfort; a short tract, not a book on grief.

Should I read this?

For the general reader: 3 of 5 worth your time
For the researcher: 0 of 5 nothing to study here
Difficulty: 0 of 5 easy

A short tract of comfort for the bereaved, beginning from ordinary memories of being left behind.

How it proceeds

Philosophic 0 of 5
Scriptural 3 of 5
Experiential 4 of 5
Sociological 0 of 5
Historical 0 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

Facing the Death of Someone You Love is a short tract (Crossway, 1985, about fourteen pages, still sold in packs of twenty-five) offering words of comfort to those grieving the death of someone they love. Elisabeth Elliot opens with memories of being left behind, a car disappearing over a hill on a rainy school day and a missed train at Penn Station, and moves from there to the deepest form of being left, when the person at the centre of one's life is gone, and to the assurance that God does not abandon the grieving.

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Catalog IDW.Q1Z946.K

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