Is This All There Is?
On Resurrection and Eternal Life
1st Edition
Published on 13. December 2017
312 pages
978-0-8146-8476-4 (ISBN)
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2020 Catholic Press Association second place award for English translation edition
Is the Christian hope for resurrection still alive or has it become tired? How can we talk about the Resurrection today? Gerhard Lohfink takes up the question of death and resurrection in this new book. He argues against the dazzling array of today's ideas and expectations and seeks his answers in Scripture, the Christian tradition, and human reason. With his characteristically gentle but clear language, he reveals the power of Christian resurrection, showing it is not about events that lie in the distant future but rather occurrences incomprehensively close to us. They were long since begun and they will embrace us fully in our own death..
Is the Christian hope for resurrection still alive or has it become tired? How can we talk about the Resurrection today? Gerhard Lohfink takes up the question of death and resurrection in this new book. He argues against the dazzling array of today's ideas and expectations and seeks his answers in Scripture, the Christian tradition, and human reason. With his characteristically gentle but clear language, he reveals the power of Christian resurrection, showing it is not about events that lie in the distant future but rather occurrences incomprehensively close to us. They were long since begun and they will embrace us fully in our own death..
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Gerhard Lohfink (1934-2024) was professor of New Testament exegesis at the University of Tübingen. His many award-winning books include Why I Believe in God, All My Springs Are in You,The Most Important Words of Jesus, Between Heaven and Earth, The Forty Parables of Jesus, No Irrelevant Jesus, Jesus of Nazareth, Is This All There Is?, The Our Father, and Prayer Takes Us Home, all from Liturgical Press.
Content
- Is This All There Is
- Preface
- Part One: What People Think
- 1: The Question of Questions
- 2: Between Skepticism and Belief in the Soul
- 3: Survival in Our Descendants?
- 4: Continual Reincarnation?
- 5: Dissolution into the Universe?
- 6: The Longing for Extinction
- Part Two: What Israel Learned
- 1: Faith Seeking Understanding
- 2: Radical Worldliness
- 3: Dissociation from Faith in the Hereafter
- 4: Security in God
- 5: Faith in Resurrection Begins to Sprout
- 6: Israel's Enduring Discovery
- Part Three: What Entered the World in Jesus
- 1: Jesus' Preaching
- 2: Jesus' Deeds of Power
- 3: Jesus' Powerlessness
- 4: Jesus' Resurrection
- 5: The Firstborn from the Dead
- 6: New Creation
- Part Four: What Will Happen to Us
- 1: The Ultimate Encounter with God
- 2: Death as Judgment
- 3: Judgment as Mercy
- 4: Purification in Death
- 5: And What about Hell?
- 6: The Whole Person
- 7: The Whole History of the World
- 8: The Whole Creation
- 9: The City of Dreams
- 10: On the Relativity of Time
- 11: On the Endurance of the Soul
- 12: On Participation
- Part Five: What We Can Do
- 1: Genuine Care for Our Dead
- 2: Christian Dying
- 3: When Does Eternity Begin?
- Acknowledgments
- Works Consulted
- Notes
