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The Presence of the Past: Cremation and Death

January 15th, 2007 | 2 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

Last night, Joe Carter argued that we have obligations now to people we will meet in the future, such as our spouses.  I pointed out (in the comments) that this would entail that we have obligations now to people in the past as well, a point that Joe agreed with (raising the inevitable question of whether that man ever sleeps–who responds to blog posts at 1:22 am?).

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Matthew Lee Anderson

Matthew Lee Anderson is an Associate Professor of Ethics and Theology in Baylor University's Honors College. He has a D.Phil. in Christian Ethics from Oxford University, and is a Perpetual Member of Biola University's Torrey Honors College. In 2005, he founded Mere Orthodoxy.

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