CHRIST AND THE HOPE OF GLORY

by John Knox ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 10, 1960

This small book of great importance represents the substance of the author's Ingersoll Lecture on the Immortality of Man given at Harvard University on Feb. 4, 1960. It is a worthy addition to this significant series of lectures, and shows brilliantly how the Christian's affirmation of the life everlasting is not and never has been dependent upon the many arguments for human immortality from Plato to Hocking. ""Our hope in Christ"", says John Knox, who teaches at the Union Theological Seminary in New York, ""is not that we shall not really die, but that God will not leave us in death and that he will bestow on us, beyond the suffering of death, the fullness of the new divine life of which he has already given us a divine portion."" This hope, or confidence, which we have in Christ includes much more than man could possibly wish for, for man himself becomes the person whom God alone now knows him to be. But this personal fulfillment will only come to pass through community. It is the Church's hope and ours individually only because we share with others in it. Though written by a scholar on solid Biblical grounds, it does not take a scholar to appreciate and understand it. All Christians will find their hearts cheered and their hopes more sure as they read and share the Christian wisdom, warmly expressed in ""Christ and the Hope of Glory"".

Pub Date: Oct. 10, 1960

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Page Count: -

Publisher: Abingdon Press

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1960

Categories: NONFICTION