March 11th, 2011 at 5:10PM
The first proclamation of the gospel is that death is God’s ancient enemy, whom God has defeated and will ultimately destroy. I would hope that no Christian pastor would fail to recognize that that completely shameless triumphalism — and with it an utterly sincere and unrestrained hatred of suffering and death — is the surest foundation of Christian hope, and the proper Christian response to grief. — Eastern Orthodox theologian David Bentley Hart, in a Jan 2006 interview about God, suffering, and evil. 
Source: religion-online.org
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