ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book formulates the theology of death has important implications for Christian mission and hope in this world of ours which, notwithstanding the pervasiveness of sin, evil and suffering, is God's world. If each human life-time is understood as grafted onto or taken up into Christ's time, if death in the integral or full sense has been transformed in the person of Christ into the plenitude of new life, then the Christian hope is essentially the hope that God will become 'all in all' in the creation of a 'new heaven and a new earth'. The risen Christ is the new creation in person, therefore to be configured to him, through the Spirit, involves personal commitment to the salvation of all and to the upholding of justice and peace in the world.
