"Towards the Biblical Resolution of the Problem of Death" by Justin O'Brien
 

Date of Award

1970

Degree Type

Master's Essay - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

Theology

Abstract

The final episode of life is veiled with obscurity. The stark reality of death remains unknowable until it is experienced. Literally it remains, if one may speak this way, a short-lived experience. μAnd yet the natural aversion for the business of death undergoes added tension when situated within a ·Cristian context . On the one hand, no other event quite reveals man' s inability to co e helplessly. All noses at self- autonomy, previously sustained in man' s personal history, now collapse . He succumbs, impotent to prolong his human existence in the face of death. Especially does this experience ap ear as a personal disaster , the peak of man' s failure to endure .

Comments

:Essay for the Marquette Theology Department, Wisconsin Milwaukee

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