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Almost all of us, at some time in our lives, are cast into grief. Living with Grief begins by the author narrating how he was cast into grief by the early death of his son, followed by an analysis of the nature of grief. He then distinguishes between owning one's grief and disowning it--putting it behind one--and explains why he has determined to own his grief, more specifically, to own it redemptively. In describing how he has struggled to own his grief redemptively, the author draws on the Christian tradition. The manuscript of the book was discussed by about twenty-five prisoners in the Handlon State Prison for Men (Michigan). The postlude of the book consists of letters by five of the prisoners describing how they own their grief redemptively in prison.

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"""I don't know of a better book for those who grieve and seek to better understand their grief. It is lucid, wise, and, in a deeply human sense, true."" --Miroslav Volf, professor of systematic theology, Yale University Divinity School ""Lament for a Son is Wolterstorff's 'cry of grief' over the untimely death of his son. Thirty-five years later, Living with Grief is an account of how he lives with that loss. Wolterstorff engages the likes of St. Augustine and John Calvin and finds them wanting. Where he finds true companions in living with grief is among the incarcerated prisoners at the Richard Handlon Correctional Facility in Ionia, Michigan. These prisoners, most with life sentences, have experienced unimaginable and incalculable losses, putting them, as one man put it, in a 'warehouse of grief.' Perhaps surprisingly, it is behind bars that Wolterstorff continues to learn how to live with grief redemptively."" --Todd V. Cioffi, executive director, The Calvin Prison Initiative, Calvin University"

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Nicholas Wolterstorff is Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology, Yale University. He is the author of Lament for a Son (1987).

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