I’m impressed with Abraham Heschel talk here on culture, religion, man and God. This interview is loaded with both captivating and inspiring thoughts. There’s four parts on youtube but only three of them actually show Dr Heschel talking.
The entire interview runs about 55 minutes, and I’d love to get my hands a copy.
Is Christianity a religion of Death?
Meaning: is the entire framework about going off to a place called “heaven” after you die? Is it really about escaping? Is ’saving souls,’ which is dualistic and platonic, the point of Christian ministry and missions? Is a personal relationship with God/Christ the ultimate aim? because some sort of reward is expected, while others are punished.
Everything in me -prior to my undergraduate New Testament degree at ORU- certainly would have said yes, whether I realized it or not; I affirmed this both in word and deed.
Post ORU NT degree, my response is NO!
There’s more to the story. More on that later.
