From the Publisher
"The profound meditations on life's ultimate question contained in the chapters of this book are a joy to read. Although challenging, both intellectually and spiritually, they are the result of a lifetime's thought and are full of ripe wisdom. . . . The context of these studies is the twentieth century, but the themes explored retain their relevance for the challenges of the twenty-first."
—D. Densil Morgan, University of Wales
"John Heywood Thomas's deeply pondered essays on the ethics of life and death draw richly on his wide knowledge of literature, philosophy, and theology. He has an acute sense that detailed discussion of moral problems cannot be adequately sustained outside of a larger vision of the meaning of human living and dying. Through a series of striking insights—indebted particularly to Kierkegaard and Tillich—he shows what shape this might take."
—Robert Song, Durham University
