The Root of Immortality: Death in the Context of Jewish Wisdom

In his influential study The Sacred Canopy, Peter Berger asserted that “the power of religion depends, in the last resort, upon the credibility of the banners it puts in the hands of men as they stand before death or, more accurately, as they walk, inevitably, toward it.” Berger was not suggesting t...

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Main Author: Collins, John J. 1946- (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1978
In: Harvard theological review
Year: 1978, Volume: 71, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 177-192
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