This article is an attempt to understand death from the viewpoint of Christianity. Here death means a natural well-dying. As we know, in our modern society of capitalism death is usually regarded as a disgust. So the solitude of dying person became a ...
This article is an attempt to understand death from the viewpoint of Christianity. Here death means a natural well-dying. As we know, in our modern society of capitalism death is usually regarded as a disgust. So the solitude of dying person became a big social problem. In reality money or material condition is recognized as the best condition for well-dying. But this article tries to show which kind of role biblical evidence of `after-death` faith plays for a well-dying. Especially while this article is relying on the perspective of theologian J. Moltmann, it attempts to reconstruct christian after death faith according to Ken Wilber`s `four quadrants` theory. The purpose is to consider christian understanding of `dying` in more generalized form. Another main job of this article is that `dying` also habe to be understood in viewpoints of `Imago dei`. Namely a death also occurs in relation to God. This article suggests Jesus as a model of `well-dying`.