What does the Bible say about suicide? / [print]
James T. Clemons.
- Minneapolis : Fortress Press, (c)1990.
- ix, 126 pages ; 22 cm.
Suicide and attempted suicide in the bible and related literature -- Hebrew Scriptures -- New Testament -- Other early Jewish literature -- Early Christian literature -- Does the Bible condemn suicide? -- Some words of caution -- Texts Condemning suicide for violating God's creation -- Texts condemning suicide as a violation of God's commandment -- People who chose to live -- Does the bible condone suicide? -- God's abiding love for us -- rejection of this present age -- call to martyrdom and self-sacrifice -- Examples of suicidal behavior and self-sacrifice -- Texts condoning self-sacrifice -- Biblical evidence in history -- importance of historical perspective -- Rejections of suicide beefore Augustine -- From Augustine to Aquinas -- From Aquinas to the sixteenth century -- Suicide and the reformers -- Seventeenth- and Eiteenth-century interpretation -- Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century interpretation -- Saul as a suicide in the history of Exegesis -- Martyrdom and suicide -- Was Jesus suicide? -- ethics of suicide -- Four areas in which ethical issues arise -- Confronting suicide from a personal perspective -- authority of the Bible -- Beliefs about God and human beings -- system of ethics -- Conclusions -- Three statements on suicide by religious communities -- What religious communities can do.