By JOHN WILSON [Christianity Today] – [Jonathan] Weiner’s perspective is that of a thoroughly secularized Jewish intellectual, deeply conversant with modern science (especially biology), which has been his province as a writer, but also knowledgeable in other spheres. He is well aware of Christian teachings about death and the afterlife, and he alludes to them on several occasions, but they don’t figure significantly in his account. (“For us—for my crowd, at least,” he remarks late in the book, “when arguments turn cosmic, the great contraries in life tend to be material.”)
“We are always dying,” Weiner writes, “and always reborn. And that is living. Our bodies are not finished products but works in progress, works continually being dismantled and repaired, rebuilt and restored, destroyed and healed at every moment in the act of living.”
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