1st Edition
Death as Transformation A Contemporary Theology of Death
By Henry L. Novello
Copyright 2011
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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A key tenet of Christian faith is that the crucifixion of Jesus Christ is a unique death by which the powers of death in the world have been conquered, so that Christian life in the Spirit is marked by the promise and hope of 'new life' already anticipated in the community of baptized believers. Notwithstanding this basic tenet regarding the Christian life as a participation in the redemptive... Read more
Acknowledgments; Permissions; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Conquest of Death by Jesus Christ: Real Time for Living; Chapter 2 The Proper Role of the Holy Spirit: Ecstatic Gift of Divine Communion; Chapter 3 The Positive Character of My Death as Assumed by Christ’s Death: Perspectives on Death in Contemporary Theology; Chapter 4 Death as Sharing in the Admirable Exchange of Natures in the Person of Jesus Christ; Chapter 5 Conclusion;
Biography
Henry L. Novello taught Systematic Theology for several years at the University of Notre Dame Australia (Fremantle) and has published articles in Gregorianum, Pacifica, Irish Theological Quarterly, Colloquium, Compass and Australasian Catholic Record. He is currently an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Theology at The Flinders University of South Australia. His special field of interest is eschatology.
'This sophisticated work of scholarship and analysis gestures toward a new theology of death... This book's insights will enrich the thinking of systematic theologians and sharpen the theological foundations of those doing pastoral work with the dying and bereaved.' Religious Studies Review 'At the outset of this book, Novello notes that his efforts will have been worthwhile if by the end of this book the reader is left with a deeper sense of the final graciousness of reality [and] of the inalienable worth of this laborious and fragmented pilgrim life which God will make whole by the workings of grace.... This reviewer is in the author’s debt for having accomplished its purpose within him.' Worship ’A consistently outstanding first book.’ Heythrop
