This is the book I have returned to more than any other when encountering grief and loss — my own, or that of others. Mitchell and Anderson provide hopeful understanding by describing six major types of losses (material, relationship, intrapsychic, functional, role and systemic loss). Careful explanations concerning the nature of grief, family patterns and grief, and helpful pastoral care during times of loss comprise the next section. The book ends with one of the most accessible treatments of the theology of grief, including themes of creation, incarnation, the cross, resurrection, finitude and providence. — Mary Thiessen Nation
ISBN: 9780664244934 (1983) 180pp