But, that aside, there remains a far larger and grimmer absurdity in the moral possibilities these arguments ask us to entertain, and what those possibilities imply about the meaning of any human love. Needless to say, we cannot describe, or even faintly imagine, what the final state of a redeemed soul might be like. But Christians are obliged, it seems clear, to take seriously the eschatological imagery of scripture; and there all talk of salvation involves the promise of a corporate beatitude—a Kingdom of love and knowledge, a wedding feast, a city of the redeemed, the body of Christ—which
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