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Article: Death
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- Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
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Death
Within the popular Western Judeo-Christian tradition, death has usually been understood to be a consequence of original sin. This has, of course, not been a scientifically informed belief. And where theology has been in conversation with science on this point, or when theology is indirectly informed by a growing ecological consciousness, natural death in and of itself is increasingly seen as a natural piece of the creation that God called good.
Western religious perspectives
The growing perspective that death according to natural processes is not necessarily a consequence of sin would cohere with the early Christian tradition, as well as with Eastern Orthodox theology. The ...
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