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Exploring the meaning of immortality through a historical Christian lens, this work reveals how early believers found consolation in faith.
This edition examines how ancient tombs, inscriptions, and art reflect a shift from death to life in Christ. By surveying catacombs, Latin and Greek memorials, and early Christian imagery, it shows how the idea of immortality shaped belief and endurance in the Ante-Nicene Church. The book also weaves together historical detail with theological reflection, tracing how spiritual hope informed daily life, worship, and community.
- Learn how early Christians expressed hope in eternal life through symbols like the Good Shepherd, the vine, and the dove.
- See how pagan and Christian tombs contrasted in message and meaning, and what that revealed about faith and consolation.
- Understand how the history of persecution, underground burial places, and later church renewal shaped Christian teaching on immortality.
- Discover how these ancient voices illuminate the book’s broader themes of suffering, faith, and spiritual life.
Ideal for readers of religious history, Christian theology, and anyone exploring how belief in eternal life has sustained faith across centuries.
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This book has grown out of a pastor's effort to be the bearer of consolation to thinking people in times of distress. To the sufferer it may be a problem of pain, but to the pastor whose aim is to lift him out of suffering it becomes a problem of consolation. There exists so much confusion as to the interpretation of God's relation to life's problems that the principles of God's moral gov ernment are often misunderstood or overlooked. Words change their meaning, new facts modify or change the philosophy that molds sentences. Old interpretations that satisfied minds whose thinking was harmonized with former facts by an old philosophy do so no more. Compared with the time when the Scriptures were written, we have a new world and new facts, and with these a new philosophy that demands a new inter pretation of our experiences to harmonize Light, Life, and Truth. As Paul, in his Epistle to the Romans, expressed the gospel in Roman terms and Roman modes of thought, so it becomes our duty to do the same for our modern world. In this humble effort I desire to express my indebt edness to Bergson and Eucken for the principles that I have endeavored to work upon.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Now the God Of comfort and of consolation grant you to be like minded. (rom. 15.
Now our Lord Jesus Christ him self, and God, even our Father who hath loved us and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work. (2 Thess. 2.
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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