{"product_id":"the-slavery-of-death","title":"The Slavery of Death","description":"\u003cp\u003eAccording to Hebrews, the Son of God appeared to  break the power of him who holds the power of deaththat is, the deviland free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death  What does it mean to be enslaved, all our lives, to the fear of death? And why is this fear described as  the power of the devil ? And most importantly, how are weas individuals and as faith communitiesto be set free from this slavery to death? In another creative interdisciplinary fusion, Richard Beck blends Eastern Orthodox perspectives, biblical text, existential psychology, and contemporary theology to describe our slavery to the fear of death, a slavery rooted in the basic anxieties of selfpreservation and the neurotic anxieties at the root of our selfesteem. Driven by anxietyenslaved to the fear of deathwe are revealed to be morally and spiritually vulnerable as  the sting of death is sin  Beck argues that in the face of this predicament, resurrection is experienced as liberation from the slavery of death in the martyrological, eccentric, cruciform, and communal capacity to overcome fear in living fully and sacrificially for others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cascade Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47335876493557,"sku":"SONG1620327775","price":14.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/71jaGetoVcL.jpg?v=1763994518","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/the-slavery-of-death","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}