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The revised edition of A Theology for the Church retains its original structure, organized under these traditional theological categories: revelation, God, humanity, Christ, the Holy Spirit, salvation, the church, and last things. Each chapter within these sections contains answers to the following four questions: What does the Bible say? What has the church believed? How does it all fit...

The hope of the glorification of the body is so certainly a part of the salvific enterprise that Paul even speaks of it as a past event along with foreknowledge, predestination, and justification (Rom 8:29). Death, consequently, has no numbing fear for believers (Rom 8:34–39). The anticipated heavenly healing provides a condition according to Revelation 21:4 in which “He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will exist no longer; grief, crying, and pain will exist no longer, because the
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