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Ray S. Anderson tackles the subject of death with clarity and without sentimentality. He discusses the treatment of death by contemporary Western society, and its place in other religious traditions. Going on to discuss the origins of a Christian theology of death, he examines the legacy of Judaism and lays the foundations for a Christian anthropology in the unity of the body and soul. Death, he...

necessity, says Otto Weber, but rather as an intervention made by God. The Old Testament does not know of an independent power of death, hypostatized as the opponent of God. ‛The actual power of death is the power of God in his concealment.’9 It is not death we are to fear, but God who is the Lord of death even as He is the Lord of life. While there is a theme of immortality as a promise to human persons in Israel’s theology, this is often vague and related to the promise of having sons as a guarantee
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