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Jesus and the Demise of Death: Resurrection, Afterlife, and the Fate of the Christian
Matthew Levering
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Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HRCA; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 312.
What happens after death to Jesus and to those who follow him? Jesus and the Demise of Death offers a constructive theology that seeks to answer that very question, carefully considering both Jesus' descent into hell and eventual resurrection as integral parts of a robust vision of the Christian bodily resurrection. Taking on the claims of N.T. Wright and Richard B. Hays, Matthew Levering draws strongly upon the work of Thomas Aquinas to propose a radical reconstruction of Christian eschatological theology--one that takes seriously the profound ways in which Christianity and its beatific vision have been enriched by Platonic thought ... Read more
What happens after death to Jesus and to those who follow him? Jesus and the Demise of Death offers a constructive theology that seeks to answer that very question, carefully considering both Jesus' descent into hell and eventual resurrection as integral parts of a robust vision of the Christian bodily resurrection. Taking on the claims of N.T. Wright and Richard B. Hays, Matthew Levering draws strongly upon the work of Thomas Aquinas to propose a radical reconstruction of Christian eschatological theology--one that takes seriously the profound ways in which Christianity and its beatific vision have been enriched by Platonic thought ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Baylor University Press United States
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
312g
Number of Pages
238
Place of Publication
Waco, United States
ISBN
9781602584471
SKU
V9781602584471
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About Matthew Levering
Matthew Levering is Perry Family Foundation Chair of Theology at Mundelein Seminary. Jewish-Christian Dialogue and the Life of Wisdom; Christ and the Catholic Priesthood; Participatory Biblical Exegesis; and Biblical Natural Law. He lives Mundelein, Illinois.
Reviews for Jesus and the Demise of Death: Resurrection, Afterlife, and the Fate of the Christian
"Levering brings the best of current biblical scholarship into a creative interface with theological reflection informed by one of the Church's greatest minds, Thomas Aquinas. In Jesus and the Demise of Death the core tenets of classical Christian eschatology, recently jettisoned by many theologians as allegedly outdated, make a surprising and come-back. Levering adds an important and timely ... Read more