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“I would implore pastors never to utter banal consolations concerning God’s ‘greater plan’ or the mystery of his will. The first proclamation of the gospel is that death is God’s ancient enemy, whom God has defeated and will ultimately destroy. I would hope that no Christian pastor would fail to recognize that that completely shameless triumphalism – and with it an utterly sincere and unrestrained hatred of suffering and death – is the surest foundation of Christian hope, and the proper Christian response to grief.”
—David Bentley Hart, quoted in Christian Century (Jan. 10, 2006) | 
