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American Christians and the Emptiness of Death
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 May 2016
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My office is the antithesis of emptiness. I am not sure how many books I have managed to cram into a 9 by 12 room, but suffice it to say I have used every available space, even to the point of violating the university's fire code. A year ago, when the fire marshal came around for a routine inspection, he informed me that I could not stack books all the way to the ceiling on top of 6-foot bookshelves but had to leave at least 12 inches' clearance. He told me he would be back for a repeat inspection in a couple of months. This forced me to do some culling—an excruciating task. So over spring break, I reluctantly downsized. Though every book now stood properly upright on a shelf, there was not an inch left anywhere in which to fit even one more volume.
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19 Corrigan, Emptiness, 8, 152, 154, 172.
20 Ibid., 10.
21 Ibid., 100–101.
22 Ibid., 38.
23 Ibid., 58–59.
24 Ibid., 18.
25 Ibid., 6, 21, 29, 30, 40.
26 Ibid., 29.
27 Ibid., 58.
28 Quoted in Harold K. Bush, Jr., Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama, 2007), 247.
29 Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (1909), in The Bible According to Mark Twain: Writings on Heaven, Eden, and the Flood, ed. Howard G. Baetzhold and Joseph B. McCullough (Athens: University of Georgia, 1995), 181.
30 Larzer Ziff, Mark Twain (New York: Oxford University, 2004), 94; Corrigan, Emptiness, 160.
31 Corrigan, Emptiness, 161–163; Grant Wacker, Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, 2001), 180.
32 Joseph Smith–History 1:19 (quoting 2 Timothy 3:5); Corrigan cites this passage in connection with his ch. 4, “Time,” in Emptiness, 143–144.
33 Bart D. Ehrman, How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee (New York: HarperOne, 2014), 164–169. See the immediate evangelical rejoinder: Craig A. Evans, “Getting the Burial Traditions and Evidences Right,” in How God Became Jesus: The Real Origins of Belief in Jesus' Divine Nature—A Response to Bart Ehrman, Michael F. Bird et al. (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2014), 71–93. For the argument that the post-resurrection appearances cited by Paul (in 1 Corinthians 15:5–8) were a tradition that developed independently from the empty tomb story, see Daniel A. Smith, Revisiting the Empty Tomb: The Early History of Easter (Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress, 2010), 2–4.
34 Bush, Mark Twain, 246.
35 Peter J. Thuesen, Predestination: The American Career of a Contentious Doctrine (New York: Oxford University, 2009), 133–135.