A biblical death-wish: Paul celebrating dying in Phil 1:21

Paul and postcolonial hermeneutics: Marginality and/in early biblical interpretation

The paper explores Paul’s engagement with the Scriptures of Israel from the point of view of (his sense of) marginality, which invites a postcolonial perspective on his hermeneutics. It first briefly considers the deployment of postcolonial criticism in biblical studies, followed by a consideration of the value of postcolonial theory for Paul’s biblical hermeneutics. Four areas where postcoloni...

Death wish of a cardiac transplant patient.

Doctors, death and dying.

Death, dying, and domination.

This Article critiques conventional liberal arguments for the right to die on liberal grounds. It contends that these arguments do not go far enough to recognize and address private, and in particular structural, forms of domination. It presents an alternative that does, which is thus more respectful of true freedom in the context of death and dying, and also more consistent with liberalism. Af...

On Death and Dying

over death. This initial attitude contrasted with the gratitude of many dying people who were only too pleased to find that a doctor and a chaplain were willing to break through the web of their loneliness. Gradually more nurses, doctors and others contributed and, in turn, improved their own adjustment to this uneasy part of their vocation. The author uses extensive quotes from interviews reco...