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Death and the Afterlife: Biblical Perspectives on Ultimate Questions is unavailable, but you can change that!

Significant aspects of death and the afterlife continue to be debated among evangelical Christians. In this NSBT volume Paul Williamson surveys the perspectives of our contemporary culture and the biblical world, and then highlights the traditional understanding of the biblical teaching and the issues over which evangelicals have become increasingly polarized. Subsequent chapters explore the...

and a new Eden. These, however, are not three distinct places,59 but complementary descriptions of a single reality: the ‘new creation’. John’s description begins by drawing attention to a renewed cosmos: ‘a new heaven and a new earth’. This fulfils the promise of Isaiah 65:17 (cf. 66:22), where this new cosmos is also portrayed (cf. Isa. 65:8–10, 18–25) in terms of transformation and renewal rather than destruction and replacement.60 Here in Revelation, John seems to suggest the latter
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