Link: Face to Face with Death

Energion author Herold Weiss, whose new book The End of the Scroll: Biblical Apocalyptic Trajectories is due out the end of this month, has an article on death from an eschatological perspective in Spectrum Magazine this month. It is also available on their web site.

While we frequently read eschatological literature in order to know about the future in general, or more specifically to know how the world will end, we often don’t think enough, or perhaps clearly enough, about the end that we all face: death. What is it? How do we face it? What comes after?

Read more on the Spectrum Magazine web site.

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