Edward Schillebeeckx, the renowned Dominican theologian, once asked, “What is a human life of at most between seventy and ninety years to the eternal God?” Although our life is but a moment or a sigh in God’s perspective, our life story of fifty or even a hundred years becomes complete and whole in and through our death. Then we can face God at last knowing who we are—o (...)
September 12, 2008
Books
What Lasts
Deep Rhythm and the Riddle of Eternal LifeJohn S. DunneUniversity of Notre Dame Press, $25, 160 pp.
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