Longevity v. Immortality, part deux

"Two opposite kinds of death are required to attain the two opposite kinds of immortality. The false immortality requires the death of conscience. The real immortality requires the death of egotism...."

"Tolkien's heroes...exemplify exactly what life would be like if the Christian claims are true, especially its central paradox about immortality through death and resurrection of the self, self-realization through self-sacrifice."

-Peter J. Kreeft, The Philosophy of Tolkien