We Love You Matty Meeting Death with Faith Tad Dunne 9780415785136 Books
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"We Love You Matty" is disturbing, enlightening, and challenging. It is disturbing because is begins with the true story of Matty Ventresca. He was born with a severely damaged heart and given up for adoption because he was not expected to live much longer than his teens. It is enlightening because it challenges the reader's spontaneous assumptions about death and an afterlife by looking at death from the points of view of wise men and women of diverse religious traditions. It is challenging to anyone who takes seriously the findings of psychology, social studies, and history. These disciplines force us to find evidence in our everyday lives for our profoundest convictions about the spirit. In particular, Dunne proposes a "Law of Care", which integrates our ordinary experience of mortality with both findings of contemporary disciplines and spiritual faith.
We Love You Matty Meeting Death with Faith Tad Dunne 9780415785136 Books
"We Love You, Matty: Meeting Death with Faith" is not a title that I would have naturally gravitated towards. Even though a good friend had pressed it on me, I wasn't inclined to read what appeared to be a sad book about a child's illness and death. Then, with my father suddenly in his death bed, I finally picked up my friend's recommendation. As it turns out, this is less a sad story of one little boy than a realistic and ultimately hopeful study of death, a topic that we in our youth-oriented culture would like to avoid as long as possible. And yet, we are all mortal: deficit omne quod nasciture. Death comes for us all sooner or later. Reading this book would be a good start towards dealing with our end.Thomas Aquinas "Tad" Dunne, a theologian, Bernard Lonergan scholar, and former Jesuit, composes his thoughts on the subject of death in this brief study, very much worthy of slow reading and reflection. (It would make a superb book for a book club.) Although Catholic in orientation, some of Dunne's views don't represent popular, traditional Catholic views on death; in fact, he opens his book with some blunt talk that may shock many readers. But taking breaks from being at my father's death bed and reading this book, I found his challenges to conventional thinking refreshing. And, now that my father is dead, I plan to turn back to this book to re-read some of Dunne's keen insights about faith, hope and love.
The title story, which as I suggested above is not at all cloying, doesn't dominate most of the book, but elements of that story serve to illustrate thematic elements throughout. Dunne treats death head on, first by surveying some of the treatments of death in various cultures in Antiquity that might help us moderns better understand our own attitudes. Dunne next challenges our views of God in light of death's significance in the context of life; in this way he briefly treats the nature of God. This is followed by a thought-provoking section on the law of care, "a process at work by which love tends to emerge in the long run" (p. 86). This "law of care" reveals where our immortality begins: "it flashes out in mutuality. Divinity reveals itself in community" (p. 101). Dunne emphasizes throughout his book the relative importance of the community over individuality in our lives and in death.
The next section is the most difficult to penetrate, but worth the effort. Here, Dunne turns his attention to theological reflections on redemption. Ultimately, Dunne shows that "redemption is about transforming bad into good. It means beating malice through forgiveness" (p. 124). The penultimate part of the book is on how to tell our story; that is, how to plan our deaths. Dunne also treats one of the knottiest of problems: how to do God's will. Finally, Dunne reveals his views on what it means for a person of faith--any faith--to die.
Dunne has written his book with the hope that it will appeal not just to Catholics but peoples of all religious traditions or none at all. One might argue that Dunne's major themes of faith, hope and love--known in the Catholic Church as the three theological virtues--were evolutionary tools to maximize the survivability of the species. For instance, love, i.e., care, is the sort of communal and familial bonding that helps preserve life through mutual support. But Dunne helps us to see that the level to which these virtues are elevated in humanity are a reflection of the divine will--all of it, from evolutionary origins to their later, higher expressions show a God working through Creation to bring all of Creation into unity ultimately in what Teilhard de Chardin called the Omega Point that is God.
This is an expensive book bought new. I think it's worth every penny and more, but this gem should be read by more people and it won't be at this price. (I returned my friend's copy and bought a used one to keep.) One might hope a major publisher might be willing to buy the rights and reissue at a lower price, or that a Kindle version might become available.
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We Love You Matty Meeting Death with Faith Tad Dunne 9780415785136 Books Reviews
"We Love You, Matty Meeting Death with Faith" is not a title that I would have naturally gravitated towards. Even though a good friend had pressed it on me, I wasn't inclined to read what appeared to be a sad book about a child's illness and death. Then, with my father suddenly in his death bed, I finally picked up my friend's recommendation. As it turns out, this is less a sad story of one little boy than a realistic and ultimately hopeful study of death, a topic that we in our youth-oriented culture would like to avoid as long as possible. And yet, we are all mortal deficit omne quod nasciture. Death comes for us all sooner or later. Reading this book would be a good start towards dealing with our end.
Thomas Aquinas "Tad" Dunne, a theologian, Bernard Lonergan scholar, and former Jesuit, composes his thoughts on the subject of death in this brief study, very much worthy of slow reading and reflection. (It would make a superb book for a book club.) Although Catholic in orientation, some of Dunne's views don't represent popular, traditional Catholic views on death; in fact, he opens his book with some blunt talk that may shock many readers. But taking breaks from being at my father's death bed and reading this book, I found his challenges to conventional thinking refreshing. And, now that my father is dead, I plan to turn back to this book to re-read some of Dunne's keen insights about faith, hope and love.
The title story, which as I suggested above is not at all cloying, doesn't dominate most of the book, but elements of that story serve to illustrate thematic elements throughout. Dunne treats death head on, first by surveying some of the treatments of death in various cultures in Antiquity that might help us moderns better understand our own attitudes. Dunne next challenges our views of God in light of death's significance in the context of life; in this way he briefly treats the nature of God. This is followed by a thought-provoking section on the law of care, "a process at work by which love tends to emerge in the long run" (p. 86). This "law of care" reveals where our immortality begins "it flashes out in mutuality. Divinity reveals itself in community" (p. 101). Dunne emphasizes throughout his book the relative importance of the community over individuality in our lives and in death.
The next section is the most difficult to penetrate, but worth the effort. Here, Dunne turns his attention to theological reflections on redemption. Ultimately, Dunne shows that "redemption is about transforming bad into good. It means beating malice through forgiveness" (p. 124). The penultimate part of the book is on how to tell our story; that is, how to plan our deaths. Dunne also treats one of the knottiest of problems how to do God's will. Finally, Dunne reveals his views on what it means for a person of faith--any faith--to die.
Dunne has written his book with the hope that it will appeal not just to Catholics but peoples of all religious traditions or none at all. One might argue that Dunne's major themes of faith, hope and love--known in the Catholic Church as the three theological virtues--were evolutionary tools to maximize the survivability of the species. For instance, love, i.e., care, is the sort of communal and familial bonding that helps preserve life through mutual support. But Dunne helps us to see that the level to which these virtues are elevated in humanity are a reflection of the divine will--all of it, from evolutionary origins to their later, higher expressions show a God working through Creation to bring all of Creation into unity ultimately in what Teilhard de Chardin called the Omega Point that is God.
This is an expensive book bought new. I think it's worth every penny and more, but this gem should be read by more people and it won't be at this price. (I returned my friend's copy and bought a used one to keep.) One might hope a major publisher might be willing to buy the rights and reissue at a lower price, or that a version might become available.
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