individual hope with which the questions of personal living and dying were answered. What is going to happen to me when I die, at the Last Judgment and afterwards? Where can I find enduring certainty in my living and my dying? The salvation of the individual and, in the individual, the salvation of the soul, was so much at the centre of things that the salvation of the body, human society and the cosmos were pushed out on to the sidelines, or did not receive any attention at all. But if the Christian