Name: Bruised and Wounded: Struggling to Understand Suicide
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Author: Ronald Rolheiser
ISBN: 9781640600843

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Bruised and Wounded: Struggling to Understand Suicide

Type

Physical Book

Author

Ronald Rolheiser

Publisher

Paraclete Press (MA)

Year

2017

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

17.3x12.7x0.8 cm

Weight

0.08 kg.

ISBN13

9781640600843

Edition No.

Synopsis "Bruised and Wounded: Struggling to Understand Suicide "

Recent events have shown again how suicide touches all of us -- often when we least expect it. But how to unpack the grief that follows such a painful, and often stigmatized, death? Ron Rolheiser can help.When someone is stricken with cancer, one of three things can happen: Doctors treat the disease and cure it; professionals can't cure the disease but can control it so that the person suffering can live with the disease for the rest of his or her life; or the cancer can be of a kind that cannot be treated and all the medicine and treatments in the world are powerless - the person dies.Emotional depression leading to suicide can work the same way. Sometimes a person can be treated so that, in effect, they are cured; sometimes they can't ever really be cured, but can be treated in a way that they can live with the disease for their whole life; and sometimes, just as with certain kinds of cancer, the disease is untreatable, unstoppable, and no intervention by anyone or anything can halt its advance - it eventually kills the person and there is nothing anyone can do. Thus, Ronald Rolheiser begins this small, powerful book.With chapters also on "Removing the Taboo," "Despair as Weakness Rather than Sin," "Reclaiming the Memory of Our Loved One," and "The Pain of the Ones Left Behind," Fr. Rolheiser offers hope and a new way of understanding death by suicide.

Ronald Rolheiser

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Ronald Rolheiser (nacido en 1947, Cactus Lake, Saskatchewan, Canadá) es un sacerdote católico, teólogo, autor y conferencista canadiense, reconocido internacionalmente por sus escritos sobre espiritualidad, vida cristiana y crecimiento personal. Pertenece a la Congregación de los Misioneros Oblatos de María Inmaculada (OMI) y fue ordenado sacerdote en 1972. Realizó estudios de teología en la Universidad de Ottawa y obtuvo un doctorado en la Universidad Católica de Lovaina, en Bélgica.

A lo largo de su trayectoria ha desempeñado funciones como profesor de teología y espiritualidad, además de ejercer cargos de liderazgo académico, entre ellos la presidencia del Oblate School of Theology, en San Antonio, Texas. Sus libros se caracterizan por presentar temas espirituales y teológicos con un lenguaje claro y accesible, dirigido tanto a creyentes como al público general.

Entre sus obras más conocidas se encuentran The Holy Longing (1999), considerada un clásico moderno sobre la espiritualidad cristiana, Sacred Fire (2014), The Passion and the Cross (2015) y Domestic Monastery (2019). Sus escritos abordan cuestiones como el sentido de la vida, la oración, el amor, el sufrimiento, el discipulado y la esperanza. Gracias a su capacidad para relacionar la tradición cristiana con los desafíos del mundo contemporáneo, Ronald Rolheiser es considerado una de las voces más influyentes de la espiritualidad católica actual.

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