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Anthony Thiselton is a world-class scholar and one of the leading hermeneutical thinkers alive. Now, after experiencing a near-fatal stroke, he turns his expert knowledge of biblical interpretation to the task of teasing out the Bible?'s teaching on the last things eschatology in a book that is at once scholarly and personal, faithful to Christian tradition yet full of fresh insights.
Probing the New Testament books for answers to every legitimate eschatological question that might be asked of them, Thiselton addresses these subjects (and more): Death and what comes after it What it means to be ready for Christ?'s return Christ?'s second coming, the millennium, and the resurrection of the dead Hell, judgment, and the wrath of God Heaven, the new creation, and the nature of eternity
Synopsis
Writing in the wake of a near-fatal stroke, eminent theologian Anthony C. Thiselton addresses a universally significant topic: death and what comes next. This distinctive study of -the last things- comprehensively explores questions about individual death, the intermediate state, the return of Christ, the resurrection of the dead, hell, the final state of the redeemed, and more. At once scholarly and pastoral, Thiselton's Life after Death offers biblically astute, historically informed, and intellectually sound answers -- making this book an invaluable resource for thinking Christians.