“In To Die Is Gain, Dr. Roger Nutt offers his reader an impressive and theologically insightful account of the nature of the Sacrament of Anointing and its broader place in a Catholic understanding of life and death in Jesus Christ. Beginning with the uni-...
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“In To Die Is Gain, Dr. Roger Nutt offers his reader an impressive and theologically insightful account of the nature of the Sacrament of Anointing and its broader place in a Catholic understanding of life and death in Jesus Christ. Beginning with the uni- versal experience of death, Nutt traces the outlines of a Christian anthropology of death within the frame of the paschal mystery, illuminating the fit- tingness of the signs and effects of the Sacrament of Anointing in light of this salvific reality. This book will no doubt be of great value to all who desire to deepen their appreciation for the theo- logical and pastoral significance of the Church’s sacramental encounter with the perennial realities of sin and death that mark the human experience.” Fr. Reginald Lynch, OP Dominican Province of St. Joseph “This is simply the best book I've read on the Anointing of the Sick. The author is a scholar’s scholar, but he writes here with clarity and practical- ity that both pastors and lay
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