A Second Birthday

by William Stringfellow

Book Overview

""To endure pain is to suffer anticipation of death, in both mind and body. It must be acknowledged, confronted, suffered, and survived on its own terms, as it were, as the very aggression of death against life. What must be faced and felt, in the uttermost of a person's being, is that assault of the power of death feigning to be sovereign over life--over the particular life of a particular person and over all of existence throughout all of history...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597523240
• ISBN13: 9781597523240
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.6"