英文摘要 |
This paper is designed primarily to understand how the cancer believers look at and perceive their suffering experience. Could they transcend today's social-cultural framework and embody certain moral life which was obeyed by themselves? By means of interviewing four Catholic cancer believer as the main analytical data in this paper, the paper is divided into four parts: 1. The sick body of the cancer believers, 2. The suffering process of the cancer believers, 3. The relationship between the cancer believers and others around them, 4. The religious belief of the cancer believers. The discovery of this analytic research is very especial about how they look at their bodies: 'I want to serve more people with this body,' they believe. Because they are aware of God involves in their lives after illness and control all situations in the world. The cancer believers show the attitude of transcendence toward illness when they respond to their corporal suffering and anxiety in heart. This kind of faith relieves the cancer believers' anxiety and leads them to develop certain moral life which goes beyond the suffering and to realize the meaning of life accordingly. |