Book Review: For All the Saints
Posted by tom | Jun 24, 2005
Book Review of N.T. Wright's For All the Saints contributed by Susan Norman
Excerpt:
This past summer, for the first time in my life, I was with someone as they died. My mother-in-law was ninety-eight. Her death was neither unwelcome--because of ill health--nor unexpected. Nevertheless, the experience of watching her pass from life to death was a profoundly moving one. Where is she now, that woman who gave birth to my husband, who loved to play her ’cello, who lived in our home for thirteen years as an increasingly frail but very lively woman?
For All the Saints delves into the age-old mystery of death, addressing my question—“Where is she?”—in clear, elegant prose . . .
