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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA CATHOLICA LATINA - Issue no. 2 / 2010  
         
  Article:   IMMORTALITY IN THE BOOK OF WISDOM IN THE CONTEXT OF THE OVERLAPPING WORLDS.

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  Abstract:  This essay addresses the concept of immortality in the Book of Wisdom within the context of its cosmology. According to the Book of Wisdom, God created all things in order that they might exist; the created world was incorrupt and in communion with God through wisdom, and the dominion of death was not on earth. Death, however, came to earth having been invited by the wicked. Consequently, the earth became the space where three realms can be seen: the earth is overlapped by the Kingdom of God and that of Hades. Therefore, human beings have the opportunity to enter either of these two kingdoms, thus, experiencing life or death. Within this context, wisdom becomes the criterion in appropriating immortality, that is, an eternal communion with God.

Keywords: God, death, earth, wisdom, righteous, wicked, immortality.

 
         
     
         
         
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