This Incomplete One: Words Occasioned by the Death of a Young Person

The death of a child or youth, perhaps more than any other event in life, signals to us that our world is broken. These premature deaths supremely test our faith. "This Incomplete One", edited by Michael D. Bush, features sixteen extraordinary sermons in which preachers wrestle with the deaths of children and young adults, ranging from prenatal to mid-thirties at the time of death. The preachers here include classic theologians - Jonathan Edwards, Friedrich Schleiermacher, and Karl Barth - and select modern preachers, some well known and others less well known. In the midst of immense grief and suffering, these excellent exegetes speak forth words of quiet hope and comfort.