Word: abingdon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...death have relatively sketchy Biblical evidence to go on. Speculation on the subject was wide open in the early centuries of Christianity, and it was the church fathers of that period who laid the foundation for later Christian thought on death. In a new book, The Shape of Death (Abingdon Press; $2.25), leading Lutheran Theologian Jaroslav Pelikan of the University of Chicago analyzes the theories of five church fathers, shows that they are still stimulating and provocative to fission-era mortals...