Is This All There Is?: On Resurrection and Eternal Life
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2020 Catholic Press Association second place award for English translation edition Is the Christian hope for resurrection still alive or has it become tired? How can we talk about the Resurrection today? Gerhard Lohfink takes up the question of death and resurrection in this new book. He argues against the dazzling array of today's ideas and expectations and seeks his answers in Scripture, the Christian tradition, and human reason. With his characteristically gentle but clear language, he reveals the power of Christian resurrection, showing it is not about events that lie in the distant future but rather occurrences incomprehensively close to us. They were long since begun and they will embrace us fully in our own death..
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Lohfink's Is this all there is deserves much more of a review than I can or will give it now. I am kicking myself for not having taken notes while reading, but now I just get to read it a second time! I am looking forward to that. If you are concerned with death, life, eternity, eternal life, the integrity of the Christian theological vision in the modern thought climate, and the proper care we should give to our dead (that chapter was by far the most delightful), then I highly recommend this book.
