Wrestling the World's Absences

Abstract

“Whatever life after death might or might not be, the present is not negated by it. Precisely because God takes death seriously, God takes life seriously. This life, our lives, our decisions now, count for God; and that means they count eternally. Eschatology ought to be the goad of ethics, not the great stultifier. Life after death may be confessed to the reconciliation of this life which we are living here and now, but it is neither the negation nor the eradication of it.”