Death and Life - Thielicke, Helmut; Schroeder, Edward H. (Philadelphia, PA : Fortress Press, 1970)
Man and death in philosophical perspective -- The anthropological character of the question about death -- The division of the I into intrinsic and nonintrinsic segments -- Man as individual and as vehicle for the universal -- Man as transitional form and bearer of the universal in Goethe's "Faust" -- Death repressed and privatized in contemporary secular religion -- Secular realism in Heidegger's View of death -- The divided "I" in Kant's ethics -- A Biblical basis for viewing the philosophical perspective on death -- The Biblical disclosure of the reality of death -- Death and human personhood -- Death a personal catastrophe -- Death as personal event -- Death in Luther's theology -- The directional character of time -- Death and security -- Death in the light of law and Gospel -- Death as the contradiction of eternal life.
Translation of : Tod und Leben, Studien zur christlichen Anthropologie (Zweite Auflage; Tübingen: Verlag von J, .C.B. Mohr [Paul Siebeck], 1946).
Keywords: Death.Death Religious aspects Christianity.