How Long to Read Burdened Agency

How Long Does it Take to Read Burdened Agency?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 55 minutes to read Burdened Agency by Travis Pickell

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Travis Pickell explores the paradoxes of choice in modern dying and the ways Christian theology can aid in navigating the relationship between moral agency and dignity at the end of life. Burdened Agency addresses the problem of death and dying through Christian theology and ethics. In previous centuries, death was something that simply “happened” to us. To choose how or when one died was the exception, not the rule. However, due to advances in modern medicine, individuals are increasingly required to make concrete choices about the nature and timing of death. Modernity, with its emphasis on individualism, complicates this further because we are increasingly bereft of cultural and religious guidance regarding death. This gives rise to the phenomenon of “burdened agency”: the predicament of having to make such difficult choices with so little to help us. This engaging book offers a historical and philosophical account of the origins of our situation of burdened agency, as well as a Christian solution to the problems that it raises. Looking to theologians such as Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, and Stanley Hauerwas, Pickell devises a radically countercultural approach to death and dying rooted in Christian theological commitments and enacted in the practices of baptism, Eucharist, and prayer.

How long is Burdened Agency?

Burdened Agency by Travis Pickell is 173 pages long, and a total of 43,769 words.

This makes it 58% the length of the average book. It also has 53% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Burdened Agency Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 59 minutes to read Burdened Agency aloud.

What Reading Level is Burdened Agency?

Burdened Agency is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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