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Religious maturity in the midst of death and dying

Odyssey Healthcare, Dallas, Texas; Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas

Healthy religious experience is defined by certain qualities of expression. In an effort to explore the concept of mature religious phenomenology, this article includes descriptions of two encounters from personal pastoral experience. The first encounter shows how a person with an unhealthy religious experience faces death. The second encounter describes an expression of mature religious experience in the face of death and how a pastoral caregiver can facilitate its outcome. This is followed by a pastoral theological response.

Key Words: pastoral theology • dying • spirituality • religious caregiving

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®, Vol. 21, No. 3, 203-208 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/104990910402100309


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