Month: January 2024

The Fear of Nothingness That Empowers Our Hero Stories

January 29, 2024

To summarize our predicament, our current bodies are mortal, leading us to fear death and a return to the nothingness out of which we were created. Evil powers exploit this fear to enslave us to evil/Sin, creating a cycle of more sin and more death. This post will explore Richard Beck’s argument for how our … More The Fear of Nothingness That Empowers Our Hero Stories

To Free Those Held in Slavery By The Fear of Death

January 15, 2024

At only 127 pages, Richard Beck’s The Slavery of Death punches above its weight class. Richard Beck is a professor of psychology at Abilene Christian University yet also dabbles in theology in books and at his blog Experimental Theology. In this book, Beck brings biblical theology into conversation with death anxiety (with the help of … More To Free Those Held in Slavery By The Fear of Death