The problem of comforting the grieving in the funeral sermon

Masarik, Albín, 1959- The problem of comforting the grieving in the funeral sermon / Albín Masarik. -- The author of this article presents the following observation: despite widespread agreement that the funeral sermon should comfort the grieving, research among the bereaved in the Slovak Republic does not indicate that they perceive the funeral sermon as a factor helpful to them in the period following the funeral. The study comes to a negative answer of whether this was a denominationally-conditioned observation, through a comparison of results from other church environments. After revealing the tension between an identified goal of bringing comfort and its non-achievement (according to the reactions of the bereaved), it is believed that occasion-specific homiletic research is necessary, with a focus on the following questions: Does the concept of comforting the grieving in the funeral sermon belong to the theologically legitimate tasks of the proclamation of God's Word at the funeral? Should this be answered in the affirmative on the basis of a biblical-theological approach, research

In The Expository Times. -- London : SAGE Publications, 2018. -- ISSN 0014-5246. -- ISSN 1745-5308. -- Vol. 129, no. 11 (2018), pp. 504-512

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I. The Expository Times. -- Vol. 129, no. 11 (2018), pp. 504-512

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