Grief: It’s Not About a Process; It’s About The Person

In this article, Paul Randolph argues that the “stages of grief” theory has dominated our thinking about death. Randolph maintains that there is another approach that is better and deeper: a biblical response to grief centers on the person of Jesus. Randolph concludes that Jesus knows what it is to grieve and we can find something more than arbitrary and impersonal stages in grieving; we find our Creator who personally responds to our losses.