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Author: Echo Bodine
Publisher: New World Library
ISBN: 1608680363
Size: 71.92 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2013-09-26
Category: Body, Mind & Spirit
Language: en
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Download PDF What Happens When We Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The success of mega-bestsellers like Proof of Heaven and 90 Minutes in Heaven shows that readers hunger for insight into what happens when we die. But can we know? Are there those who’ve been “there” and back? Echo Bodine is beloved for her down-to-earth wisdom on the decidedly out of this world. In these pages, she shares her lifetime of learning — and personal experience — about the above questions. She offers practical tools for being with the dying (including what not to do), for grieving (through the poignant experience of her own mother’s passing as Bodine was writing this book), and for cultivating clear and inspiring communication with the deceased. Learning what happens when we die turns out to be inspiring, reassuring, and profoundly life changing.

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Author: Thomas G. Long
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 0898692334
Size: 28.69 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2017-08-17
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF What Happens When We Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A straightforward treatment of the only existential issue that matters from the Christian perspective. In What Happens When We Die? Tom Long provides information about the promises and convictions of the Christian gospel concerning death and life after death. He surveys in simple terms the major themes surrounding death, dying, and hope for an afterlife.

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Author: Evan Thompson
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231538952
Size: 34.53 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2014-09-02
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Dying What Happens When We Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In the ancient Indian epic, Mahabharata, the Lord of Death asks, "What is the most wondrous thing in the world?", and his son answers, "It is that all around us people can be dying and we don't believe it can happen to us." This refusal to face the inevitability of death is especially prevalent in modern Western societies. We look to science to tell us how things are but biomedicine and neuroscience divest death of any personal significance by presenting it as just the breakdown of the body and the cessation of consciousness. The Tibetan Buddhist perspective stands in sharp contrast to this modern scientific notion of death. This tradition conceives dying not as the mere termination of living processes within the body, but as a rite of passage and transformation of consciousness. Physical death, in this tradition, initiates a transition from one of the six bardos ("in-between states") of consciousness to an opportunity for total enlightenment. In Dying: What Happens When We Die?, Evan Thompson establishes a middle ground between the depersonalized, scientific account of death and the highly ritualized notion of death found in Tibetan Buddhism. Thompson's depiction of death and dying offers an insightful neurobiological analysis while also delving into the phenomenology of death, examining the psychological and spiritual effects of dying on human consciousness. In a trenchant critique of the near-death experience literature, he shows that these experiences do not provide evidence for the continuation of consciousness after death, but also that they must be understood phenomenologically and not in purely neuroscience terms. We must learn to tolerate the "ultimate ungraspability of death" by bearing witness to dying and death instead of turning away from them. We can learn to face the experience of dying through meditative practice, and to view the final moments of life not as a frightening inevitability to be shunned or ignored, but as a deeply personal experience to be accepted and even embraced.

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Book Detail:
Author: Sam Parnia, M.D.
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
ISBN: 9781401933548
Size: 10.78 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2007-01-01
Category: Body, Mind & Spirit
Language: en
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Download PDF What Happens When We Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Dr. Sam Parnia faces death every day. Through his work as a critical-care doctor in a hospital emergency room, he became very interested in some of his patients’ accounts of the experiences that they had while clinically dead. He started to collect these stories and read all the latest research on the subject, and then he conducted his own experiments. That work has culminated in this extraordinary book, which picks up where Raymond Moody’s Life After Life left off. Written in a scientific, balanced, and engaging style, this is powerful and compelling reading. This fascinating and controversial book will change the way you look at death and dying.

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Book Detail:
Author: Randy Frazee
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 0718086031
Size: 53.86 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2017-05-02
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF What Happens After You Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Popular pastor Randy Frazee answers perennial questions about life after death with an accessible exploration of what the Bible has to say on the subject. In both Christian and pop culture, there is a certain fascination with the afterlife. What happens after you die? What happens if you die with Christ or without Christ? What happens when Jesus returns if you have or haven’t accepted Christ? What exactly comes next? Randy Frazee, popular pastor of Oak Hills Church and general editor of the wildly successful Believe and The Story programs, answers these questions and more. Born out of a deeply personal search for truth after the death of his mother, What Happens After You Die is a straightforward exploration of what the Bible says about life after death. From heaven and hell to the Lake of Fire and the actual presence of God, Frazee uncovers what is simply cultural tradition and what is truly biblical. He shows readers not only the death Jesus came to save us from but the life he came to save us for. Based on a teaching series that has had more online views than any other series Frazee has done to date, What Happens After You Die is a guide to the perennial questions about life and death, what comes next, and how we should live until then.

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Book Detail:
Author: Burkhard Madea
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1444181777
Size: 27.13 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2015-09-08
Category: Law
Language: en
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Download PDF Estimation Of The Time Since Death eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Estimation of the Time Since Death remains the foremost authoritative book on scientifically calculating the estimated time of death postmortem. Building on the success of previous editions which covered the early postmortem period, this new edition also covers the later postmortem period including putrefactive changes, entomology, and postmortem r

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Author: Deepak Chopra
Publisher: Harmony
ISBN:
Size: 33.21 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2006
Category: Future life
Language: en
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Download PDF Life After Death eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The author explores the mysteries of life after death, interweaving scientific research and the wisdom of ancient Vedanta sages to describe what happens to us when we die and to build a case for an afterlife.

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Book Detail:
Author: Samael Aun Weor
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1934206660
Size: 54.74 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2011-05-18
Category: Body, Mind & Spirit
Language: en
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Download PDF Beyond Death The Gnostic Book Of The Dead eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Leaving behind both fear and belief, Samael Aun Weor explains through vivid stories what happens when we die and how we can prepare ourselves now to take full advantage of the experience. Instructions to prepare the soul for the process of dying and the experiences of the afterlife are found within the scriptures of every mystical tradition, especially the Bible, The Theban Recension (Egyptian Book of the Dead), and the Bardo Thodol (Tibetan Book of the Dead), yet they are veiled in cryptic symbolism and are difficult for most people to understand. Now, for the first time, this book fearlessly approaches the topics of death, dying, and the afterlife for our day and age -- and for those who are tired of theories and are ready to know the truth through their own experience.

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Book Detail:
Author: Committee on Care at the End of Life
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309518253
Size: 65.43 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 1997-10-30
Category: Medical
Language: en
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Download PDF Approaching Death eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. When the end of life makes its inevitable appearance, people should be able to expect reliable, humane, and effective caregiving. Yet too many dying people suffer unnecessarily. While an "overtreated" dying is feared, untreated pain or emotional abandonment are equally frightening. Approaching Death reflects a wide-ranging effort to understand what we know about care at the end of life, what we have yet to learn, and what we know but do not adequately apply. It seeks to build understanding of what constitutes good care for the dying and offers recommendations to decisionmakers that address specific barriers to achieving good care. This volume offers a profile of when, where, and how Americans die. It examines the dimensions of caring at the end of life: Determining diagnosis and prognosis and communicating these to patient and family. Establishing clinical and personal goals. Matching physical, psychological, spiritual, and practical care strategies to the patient's values and circumstances. Approaching Death considers the dying experience in hospitals, nursing homes, and other settings and the role of interdisciplinary teams and managed care. It offers perspectives on quality measurement and improvement, the role of practice guidelines, cost concerns, and legal issues such as assisted suicide. The book proposes how health professionals can become better prepared to care well for those who are dying and to understand that these are not patients for whom "nothing can be done."

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Book Detail:
Author: John C. Hagan
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826273688
Size: 54.38 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2017-01-30
Category: Body, Mind & Spirit
Language: en
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Download PDF The Science Of Near Death Experiences eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. What happens to consciousness during the act of dying? The most compelling answers come from people who almost die and later recall events that occurred while lifesaving resuscitation, emergency care, or surgery was performed. These events are now called near-death experiences (NDEs). As medical and surgical skills improve, innovative procedures can bring back patients who have traveled farther on the path to death than at any other time in history. Physicians and healthcare professionals must learn how to appropriately treat patients who report an NDE. It is estimated that more than 10 million people in the United States have experienced an NDE. Hagan and the contributors to this volume engage in evidence-based research on near-death experiences and include physicians who themselves have undergone a near-death experience. This book establishes a new paradigm for NDEs.

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Book Detail:
Author: Evan Thompson
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231538316
Size: 78.85 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2014-11-18
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Waking Dreaming Being eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A renowned philosopher of the mind, also known for his groundbreaking work on Buddhism and cognitive science, Evan Thompson combines the latest neuroscience research on sleep, dreaming, and meditation with Indian and Western philosophy of mind, casting new light on the self and its relation to the brain. Thompson shows how the self is a changing process, not a static thing. When we are awake we identify with our body, but if we let our mind wander or daydream, we project a mentally imagined self into the remembered past or anticipated future. As we fall asleep, the impression of being a bounded self distinct from the world dissolves, but the self reappears in the dream state. If we have a lucid dream, we no longer identify only with the self within the dream. Our sense of self now includes our dreaming self, the "I" as dreamer. Finally, as we meditate—either in the waking state or in a lucid dream—we can observe whatever images or thoughts arise and how we tend to identify with them as "me." We can also experience sheer awareness itself, distinct from the changing contents that make up our image of the self. Contemplative traditions say that we can learn to let go of the self, so that when we die we can witness its dissolution with equanimity. Thompson weaves together neuroscience, philosophy, and personal narrative to depict these transformations, adding uncommon depth to life's profound questions. Contemplative experience comes to illuminate scientific findings, and scientific evidence enriches the vast knowledge acquired by contemplatives.

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Book Detail:
Author: Cedric A. Mims
Publisher: Constable
ISBN:
Size: 43.88 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 1998
Category: Death
Language: en
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Download PDF When We Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. What happens to us when we die: the disposal of corpses, the preservation of the dead, funerary rites and rituals in art and religion, the use and abuse of the dead, and the often astounding ways in which we dispose of them.

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Book Detail:
Author: Norman L. Cantor
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 9781589017139
Size: 47.95 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2010-11-11
Category: Medical
Language: en
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Download PDF After We Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. What will become of our earthly remains? What happens to our bodies during and after the various forms of cadaver disposal available? Who controls the fate of human remains? What legal and moral constraints apply? Legal scholar Norman Cantor provides a graphic, informative, and entertaining exploration of these questions. After We Die chronicles not only a corpse’s physical state but also its legal and moral status, including what rights, if any, the corpse possesses. In a claim sure to be controversial, Cantor argues that a corpse maintains a “quasi-human status" granting it certain protected rights—both legal and moral. One of a corpse’s purported rights is to have its predecessor’s disposal choices upheld. After We Die reviews unconventional ways in which a person can extend a personal legacy via their corpse’s role in medical education, scientific research, or tissue transplantation. This underlines the importance of leaving instructions directing post-mortem disposal. Another cadaveric right is to be treated with respect and dignity. After We Die outlines the limits that “post-mortem human dignity” poses upon disposal options, particularly the use of a cadaver or its parts in educational or artistic displays. Contemporary illustrations of these complex issues abound. In 2007, the well-publicized death of Anna Nicole Smith highlighted the passions and disputes surrounding the handling of human remains. Similarly, following the 2003 death of baseball great Ted Williams, the family in-fighting and legal proceedings surrounding the corpse’s proposed cryogenic disposal also raised contentious questions about the physical, legal, and ethical issues that emerge after we die. In the tradition of Sherwin Nuland's How We Die, Cantor carefully and sensitively addresses the post-mortem handling of human remains.

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Book Detail:
Author: Floris Tomasini
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137538287
Size: 36.15 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2017-08-01
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Remembering And Disremembering The Dead eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and when is death, affects how we understand the possibility of posthumous harm and redemption. Whilst it is impossible to hurt the dead, it is possible to harm the wishes, beliefs and memories of persons that once lived. In this way, this book highlights the vulnerability of the dead, and makes connections to a historical oeuvre, to add critical value to similar concepts in history that are overlooked by most philosophers. There is a long historical view of case studies that illustrate the conceptual character of posthumous punishment; that is, dissection and gibbetting of the criminal corpse after the Murder Act (1752), and those shot at dawn during the First World War. A long historical view is also taken of posthumous harm; that is, body-snatching in the late Georgian period, and organ-snatching at Alder Hey in the 1990s.

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Book Detail:
Author: Anya Foos-Graber
Publisher: Nicolas-Hays, Inc.
ISBN: 0892545747
Size: 72.79 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 1989-01-15
Category: Self-Help
Language: en
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Download PDF Deathing eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Everyone who is born is someday going to die. Some of us will die peacefully in our sleep, some will die in accidents, and some as the result of diseases, cancer or AIDS. Because we do not usually know when we are going to die, most of us are frightened of death. We do not want to talk about it, do not want to face it, and we run from it as long as we can. And some of us die a lonely death--in a hospital, surrounded by strangers and white sheets, while family and loved ones are kept out of the room at the final moment. Anya Foos-Graber believes that death, like birth, should be a shining, light filled, conscious moment. Death is not a disease. It is the most natural passage we will make since birth. Looking at death before the time comes is like learning about natural childbirth before having a baby. Just as women are choosing to be conscious participants in the birth process, Foos-Graber feels that all of us should be conscious as well of our eventual death--that we should prepare for it the way the Tibetan Buddhists and American Indians used to do. The author calls this process of conscious preparation and practice deathing. The book presents two teaching stories, illustrating both a conscious death and an unconscious one. The second half of the book is a step-by-step manual, containing complete instruction and simple exercises--such as breathing, visualization, and the all important, "6th technique," or your chosen "Name and form of God" to which you direct your attention in life and the death transition. You can use the formless LIGHT itself as referent, an absence of any belief structure. A support person rather like the father's presence in natural childbirth can assist in the event of coma, or accident death. Other books have been written about grief, about wills, about taking care of your affairs. This is a book about taking care of yourself, and how to be helpful to someone you care for. Deathing has two aims: to make sure that the dying are comfortable and comforted as they die, and to help all of us prepare for the greatest adventure we will face since birth.

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Book Detail:
Author: William Lane Craig
Publisher: Crossway
ISBN: 1433501155
Size: 24.86 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2008
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Reasonable Faith eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This updated edition by one of the world's leading apologists presents a systematic, positive case for Christianity that reflects the latest work in the contemporary hard sciences and humanities. Brilliant and accessible.

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Book Detail:
Author: David Eagleman
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307378020
Size: 66.38 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2009-02-10
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Sum eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. At once funny, wistful and unsettling, Sum is a dazzling exploration of unexpected afterlives—each presented as a vignette that offers a stunning lens through which to see ourselves in the here and now. In one afterlife, you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. In another version, you work as a background character in other people’s dreams. Or you may find that God is a married couple, or that the universe is running backward, or that you are forced to live out your afterlife with annoying versions of who you could have been. With a probing imagination and deep understanding of the human condition, acclaimed neuroscientist David Eagleman offers wonderfully imagined tales that shine a brilliant light on the here and now.

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Book Detail:
Author: Rifat Sonsino
Publisher: Behrman House Publishing
ISBN: 9780807403563
Size: 61.60 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 1990
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF What Happens After I Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book deals with many questions relating to Judaism's view of afterlife, drawing on textual sources, medieval thought, mystical literature, and contemporary writes from each denomination of Judaism.

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Book Detail:
Author: Kamlesh D. Patel
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
ISBN: 1684031362
Size: 55.51 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2018-06-01
Category: Body, Mind & Spirit
Language: en
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Download PDF The Heartfulness Way eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. “A must-read for anyone interested in incorporating meditation into their lifestyle.” ––Sanjay Gupta, MD, chief medical correspondent for CNN Heartfulness is an ideal, a spiritual way of living by and from the heart that is inclusive of all ideologies, beliefs, and religions. In this heart-centered book, a student in conversation with his teacher, Kamlesh D. Patel—affectionately known as Daaji, the fourth and current spiritual guide of the century-old Heartfulness tradition—present a unique method of meditation with the power to facilitate an immediate, tangible spiritual experience, irrespective of a person’s faith. Our modern, fast-paced world can be an overwhelming place. Every day, we’re bombarded with messages telling us that in order to be happy, fulfilled, and worthy, we must be better, do more, and accumulate as much material wealth as possible. Most of us move through our busy lives with our minds full of these ideas, multitasking as we strive to navigate the responsibilities and expectations we must meet just to make it through the day. But what if there is another way? What if, rather than letting the busyness of life overtake our minds, we learn to be heartful instead? Based on Daaji’s own combination of approaches and practices for the modern seeker—which draws from the teachings of Sahaj Marg, meaning “Natural Path”—Heartfulness is a contemporized version of the ancient Indian practice of Raja Yoga, a tradition that enables the practitioner to realize the higher Self within. While many books describe refined states of being, The Heartfulness Way goes further, providing a pragmatic course to experience those states for oneself, which, per the book’s guiding principle, is “greater than knowledge.” Heartfulness meditation consists of four elements—relaxation, meditation, cleaning, and prayer—and illuminates the ancient, defining feature of yogic transmission (or pranahuti), the utilization of divine energy for spiritual growth and transformation. Using the method, detailed practices, tips, and practical philosophy offered in this book, you’ll reach new levels of attainment and learn to live a life more deeply connected to the values of the Heartfulness way—with acceptance, humility, compassion, empathy, and love.

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Book Detail:
Author: Ted A. Campbell
Publisher: Abingdon Press
ISBN: 1426753470
Size: 28.76 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2011-10-01
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Methodist Doctrine eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In this concise, accessible book, Dr. Ted Campbell provides a brief summary of the major doctrines shared in the Wesley family of denominations. Writing in concise and straightforward language, Campbell organizes the material into systematic categories: doctrine of revelation, doctrine of God, doctrine of Christ, doctrine of the Spirit, doctrine of humanity, doctrine of "the way of salvation" (conversion/justification/sanctification), doctrine of the church and means of grace, and doctrine of thing to come. He also supplies substantial buy simplified updated references in the margins of the book that allow for easy identification of his sources. John Wesley distinguished between essential doctrines on which agreement or consensus is critical and opinions about theology or church practices on which disagreement must be allowed. Though today few people join churches based on doctrinal commitments, once a person has joined a church it becomes important to know the teachings of that church's tradition. In Methodist Doctrine: The Essentials, Ted Campbell outlines historical doctrinal consensus in American Episcopal Methodist Churches in a comparative and ecumenical dialogue with the doctrinal inheritance of other major families of Christian tradition. In this way, the book shows both what Methodist churches historically teach in common with ecumenical Christianity and what is distinctive about the Methodist tradition in its various contemporary forms. For more information, please see the author's website: http://tedcampbell.com/methodist-doctrine/

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