Allen Verhey

Allen Verhey teaches at Duke Divinity School. He recently wrote The Christian Art of Dying.

Articles by Allen Verhey

Books

The Anticipatory Corpse

Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying

By Jeffrey P. Bishop

Can medicine be cured?

Sep 13, 2012 by Allen Verhey

Jeffrey Bishop is both a physician and a philosopher. Here he turns his clinical and analytical gaze on medicine, and his diagnosis is bleak.

Cover Story

Still dying badly

A Christian critique

Oct 19, 2011 by Allen Verhey

The emphasis on patients' rights and autonomy has been a weak remedy for medicalized death.

Features

Necessary decisions

Taking Sides for Schiavo
Apr 19, 2005 by Allen Verhey
Like March Madness in the basketball world, participants in the debate over Terri Schiavo seemed driven to pick a team and root it on to victory, vanquishing the opponents. With her death, it’s time to put the madness behind us and attend not just to the passion but to the compassion on both sides of the debate. Both sides, after all, claimed to be on Terri’s side.
Books

What would Jesus do?

spring books 1999

May 19, 1999  by Allen Verhey

Some of my students wear bracelets bearing the legend "WWJD"—What Would Jesus Do? Sometimes in the midst of a discussion about some hard issue, I ask a student sporting such a bracelet to apply that question to the problem. The replies range from embarrassed silence and empty platitudes to wonderfully astute observations. The astute replies are usually based on the story or stories of Jesus, and exercise what William Spohn calls "the analogical imagination."