Living Well in the Light of Death | N.T. Wright & Shelly Kagan
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Living Well in the Light of Death | N.T. Wright & Shelly Kagan
August 18, 2018
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It’s the one universal on which we all agree: everyone dies. How we deal with death determines much of what we spend our lives trying to accomplish and become. At a Veritas Forum from Yale, theologian N.T. Wright (University of St. Andrews) and philosopher Shelly Kagan (Yale) discuss the reality of death and whether we should hope for something beyond it.
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