TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clemons,James T
TI  - What does the Bible say about suicide?
SN  - 9780800623999
AV  - BS680 
PY  - 1990///
CY  - Minneapolis
PB  - Fortress Press
KW  - Suicide
KW  - Biblical teaching
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
N1  - Bibliography: pages 117-126; 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; 2
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