The Strange Work of Dying

Abstract

This article examines the strange and special character of the work of dying manifest in Christian faith. As a discipline of thinking, ethics arises in response to the transience of life as a way of securing the future, both lending its support to technological interventions and at the same time prompting a new kind of question concerning ‘for what’ something should be done. Christian faith arising from the death and resurrection of the Son of God lives from out of another possibility—that in receiving God’s love, the human soul may be turned from out of death into a future life in the divine presence.