"See you on the other side!” This perhaps (on my part) overly optimistic, one-line message was what I thought to convey to my dear friend and colleague, Michael Novak, when my wife, Catherine, went to visit him in the hospital a few days before his passing.
I later reflected on why. Yes, in part it was because we were both philosophers in the footsteps of Socrates, and accustomed, then, to think of death as simply “movement to another place.” In part, too, I wished to signal that I shared his vibrant Christian faith, that in death life is “changed not ended.” ...
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