"The Hope of Life After Death" M. Jeff Brannon. A Review
One crucial aspect of the Christian faith that makes Christianity Christianity, is the resurrection of men, women, girls and boys. Unlike so many other "afterlife" paradigms, Christianity uniquely touts that just as Jesus rose from the dead, body, blood, bones, toenails and hair, so his followers will also rise, body and soul, and permanently shake of mortality and misery. M. Jeff Brannon, professor of biblical studies and chair of the biblical studies and Christian ministries department at Belhaven University in Jackson Mississippi, has compiled a beautifully helpful manual to show how the biblical teaching on the resurrection is an essential and central doctrine in Scripture, and it is closely tied to all other creation and redemption themes of the Bible. His work is compiled in a 200-page paperback, "The Hope of Life After Death: A Biblical Theology of Resurrection". This volume is another installment in IVP Academic's "Essential Studies in Biblical Th...