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Sleep As Metaphor In Paul- Dying And Living In The Promise Of The Parousia, Nadine Grayl
Sleep As Metaphor In Paul- Dying And Living In The Promise Of The Parousia, Nadine Grayl
Master of Art Theology Thesis
This project began with a curiosity for "life after death" matters when I was in confirmation class at a small South Jersey Lutheran church. My mother wanted to know if believers would be with Jesus as soon as they died, so I asked the pastor this and more. It was not until almost ten years later when I attended the 1999 Theological Symposium at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, MO, as an undergraduate deaconess student from Concordia University, River Forest, IL, that I learned what really happens to believers when they die-and even if they don't. I am ever grateful …