The subject for June 9, 1998 was Death - Christian Approaches

1. Reviews of recent books:

i)Farnás Ma'sumián Life After Death: A Study of the Afterlife in World Religions;

ii)Dan Cohn-Sherbok and Christopher Lewis, eds., Beyond Death: Theological and
Philosophical Reflections on Life after Death by E.C. Schofield, Expository Times 107 (1996): 158

Another review of Cohn Sherbok and Lewis by Brian Hebblethwaite in
Theology 99 (1996):328-9

Caroline Walker Bynum, The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336
by Kyle A. Pasewark The Christian Century 1996: 404 - 407

R. W. K. Paterson, Philosophy and the Belief in a Life After Death by Raymond Martin in
Religious Studies 32(1996): 415-417

2. Selection of articles:

Ian S. Markham, "Questions People Ask 8. Life After Death," Expository Times,
107 (1996) 164-9

John Pilkington, "After the Crematorium: What?"Expository Times, 107 (1996): 367-70

Slocum, Robert, "William Stringfellow and the Christian Witness Against Death," Anglican
Theological Review, 77(1995): 173-186

William May, "The Sacral Power of Death in Contemporary Experience," in Liston O. Mills, ed.,
Perspectives on Death, (Nashville:Abingdon): 169-196

3. Some Golden Oldies:

A. S. Pringle-Pattison, "Conclusions" from The Idea of Immortality (Oxford, 1922): 190-208

B.H. Streeter, "The Nature of Eternal Life," from Immortality (New York: Macmillan,
1922): 145-166

MacKintosh, H.R., "The Life Everlasting" from Immortality and the Future: the Christian Doctrine
of Eternal Life (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1917):229-244

4. Helmut gets to bat cleanup:

Helmut Thielicke chapters 14, 15, 16 from Death and Life (Philadelphia: Fortress): 172-202

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