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An Individual Paradise is Not Enough: How Our Contagious World Aches for A Cosmic Hope

April 20th, 2020 | 4 min read

By J. Todd Billings

Our world feels contaminated with disease. And yet, precisely in light of this contagion, perhaps we can learn more about the breadth and depth of Christian resurrection hope. Indeed, our cultural imagination may be more in tune to a reality that has a great deal to do with Eastertide season: the way in which the whole world is in need of healing, in need of a Deliverer.

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J. Todd Billings

J. Todd Billings is the Gordon H. Girod Research Professor of Reformed Theology at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, MI. This article is adapted from his forthcoming book The End of the Christian Life: How Embracing Our Mortality Frees Us to Truly Live (Brazos, September 2020): http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/the-end-of-the-christian-life/392000

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