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Book SynopsisPresents a balanced perspective of the doctrine at the center of Christian belief - the Church's faith in eternal life. This work brings together recent emphasis on the theology of hope for the future with more traditional elements of the doctrine. It also includes a preface by Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI.
Table of ContentsContents; Preface to the German Original; Preface to the English Edition; A Note on the Current Volume; I. Introduction: The State of the Question; Part One. The Eschatological Problem as a Question About the Very Essence of Christianity; II. The Exegetical Data; III. Word and Reality in Contemporary Appreciation; Part Two. Death and Immortality. The Individual Dimension of Eschatology; IV. The Theology of Death; V. The Immortality of the Soul and the Resurrection of the Dead; Part Three. The Future Life; VI. The Resurrection of the Dead and the Return of Christ; VII. Hell, Purgatory, Heaven; Appendix I. Between Death and Resurrection; Appendix II. Afterword to the English Edition.
