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Dickinson's Because I Could Not Stop for Death.(Emily Dickinson)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20070101
Author:Spencer, Mark

Most of the various interpretations of Dickinson's much-discussed poem seem to assume one significant feature of supposed Christian belief in the afterlife, namely, that the soul at death immediately attains its eternal state. This is indeed the popular view of the question, but it is not the most theologically accurate one. The Revelation of John presents a quite different scenario, in which the Last Judgment will not take place until the Second Coming of Christ at some undetermined point in the future, when the saved will be restored to life and the damned shall perish utterly. ...

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