Lament for a Son
by Nicholas Wolterstorff, Wolterstorff
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Author: Nicholas Wolterstorff, WolterstorffEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1987-01
ISBN: 080280294X
Number of pages: 111
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
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Summary: 5 Stars
A friend of Professor Wolterstorff once said that he had bought a copy of this book for every member of his family to read. Prof. Wolterstorff, finding that odd since the book is a meditation on the death of his son, asked why. His friend said he did so because the book was a love song.
And indeed it is. It is a love song to Prof. Woltestorff's son, Eric, who died at the early age of 25 in a mountain climbing accident, but it is also a love song to Jesus Christ and to the people he has made and placed in our lives. I can honestly say that no book I have ever read has helped me understand life and death so well. I think I understand much better now just how evil and satanic death truly is. While some say death is natural, and even elevate it to a special place in their spirituality, Prof. Wolterstorff, in recounting his grief and love for his son, reminds us that death was never meant to be. That even God himself, in all the mystery that this entails, hates death with a deadly passion and sits in anguish with us when those we love are taken from us.
I strongly recommend you read this book, regardless of whether you are suffering through such tragedy yourself. It is a love song that like all great love songs reorients the mind and the heart to that which is true and good.
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