Session Description
Christians have all too often failed to think thoroughly and biblically or theologically about the nature of a good word in the fi nal testimony of a person’s life and have instead allowed the practice of eulogizing to be determined by Greco-Roman and popular ideas. In this workshop we will explore what it means to speak the unvarnished truth about the deceased in such a way that the grace of God becomes the focal point rather than the dead person’s decency, niceness, or superlative accomplishments.
Conference Title
2020 Calvin Symposium on Worship
Event Date
1-31-2020
Event Type
Lecture/Plenary
Type (recording/text)
Text
Subject Area
Homiletics
Topic
Preaching
Keywords:
Eulogy, Grace, Focus
Recommended Citation
Taylor, W. David O., "Everything I Learned About Giving a Eulogy I Learned from a Science Fiction Novel" (2020). Symposium on Worship Archive. 58.
https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/uni-cicw-symposium/2020/allitems/58
Everything I Learned About Giving a Eulogy I Learned from a Science Fiction Novel
Christians have all too often failed to think thoroughly and biblically or theologically about the nature of a good word in the fi nal testimony of a person’s life and have instead allowed the practice of eulogizing to be determined by Greco-Roman and popular ideas. In this workshop we will explore what it means to speak the unvarnished truth about the deceased in such a way that the grace of God becomes the focal point rather than the dead person’s decency, niceness, or superlative accomplishments.