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Recognition of Limitations and Wisdom

  • Journal of Counseling and Gospel
  • Abbr : Jocag
  • 2009, 12(), pp.122-146
  • DOI : 10.17841/jocag.2009.12..122
  • Publisher : Korean Evangelical Counseling Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology > Pastoral Counseling
  • Received : March 29, 2009
  • Accepted : May 12, 2009

Ahn, Kyung Seung 1

1아세아연합신학대학교

ABSTRACT

Death is an event that presents a crisis to human beings. Recognizing death and the variety of coping resources, along with meaning attached to death, can help Christian counselor to perceive strategies for providing assistance in time of grief. In reflecting on the subject of death, the author mentions three approaches of death: technological and cultural influence, existential understanding, and therapeutic method. Christian counselor needs to interpret death from a faith perspective. We has the message of eternal life which is so vital. Christians die with hope. Moreover, the Bible tells us that the prerequisite for attaining wisdom is reflection on our numbered days. We must mediate on our own death in order to be wise. When we apply this practical wisdom to our life, it will benefit not only dying person, but also all our life. We can speculate the meaning of life, open our future, and overcome other kinds of limit in our life. In order to really live, we must give ourselves to death. But when we has done so, we discover that we are not to die, but to live.

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