Sustenance galore! Funny, I just finished reading "Fall's Memento Mori" from Dr. Grace Hamman, circling this same autumnal theme.
As another Protestant, I suppose I've been taught to think on death as death relates to Christ: Paul's "to die is gain," together with our hope that we belong to Christ in death (nicely honed in question one of the Heidelberg Catechism). This is weighing death in view of eternal heaven, which I think is key, but it's not weighing death in terms of those whom we've lost (other than in the context of grieving), which you discuss here. The latter seems a good complement to the former, in that it does not fear death for our loved ones the way we shouldn't fear it for ourselves.
Sustenance galore! Funny, I just finished reading "Fall's Memento Mori" from Dr. Grace Hamman, circling this same autumnal theme.
As another Protestant, I suppose I've been taught to think on death as death relates to Christ: Paul's "to die is gain," together with our hope that we belong to Christ in death (nicely honed in question one of the Heidelberg Catechism). This is weighing death in view of eternal heaven, which I think is key, but it's not weighing death in terms of those whom we've lost (other than in the context of grieving), which you discuss here. The latter seems a good complement to the former, in that it does not fear death for our loved ones the way we shouldn't fear it for ourselves.
Trust some random Irish man to drag out a creepy turn of phrase if he knows someone’s gonna write it down