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Ordinary idols.(Death of an Ordinary Man : A Novel)(Book Review)
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First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and PublicLife
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October 1, 2005
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DEATH OF AN ORDINARY MAN: A NOVEL By GLEN DUNCAN Grove. 320pp. $13 paper.
"AS SOON as the soul is set free from the body it is either plunged into hell or soars to heaven," wrote that doctor of the Church, St. Thomas Aquinas back in the thirteenth century, "unless it be held back by some debt, for which its flight must needs be delayed until the soul is first of all cleansed." This truth is now attested also by the manifest authority of England's Glen Duncan.
Death of an Ordinary Man is Duncan's novel about the delayed flight--or will it prove to be the delayed plunge?--of the soul of Nathan Clark, who in the opening pages comes to consciousness to find himself ...
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