death becomes necessary if we really want to listen and respond to basic problems of human existence. ‛In a sense’, he writes, death calls the whole theological enterprise into question. Death forces us to examine the claim of Christian faith that in Jesus Christ a God of unconditional love offers new life and hope.… And death also raises problems concerning the future, questions about a possible life after death and a final fulfillment of the goals and values experienced in this life. A theology