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Our churches affirm that death cannot destroy the communion with God of those redeemed and justified. The nature of the life that the justified departed share with God cannot be described in great detail and, in this life, it remains a great mystery. Nevertheless, Catholics and Lutherans share the sure and certain hope that the justified departed are in Christ and enjoy the rest that belongs to those who have run the race. This common statement of Round XI offers fresh insights into some issues that proved contentious in the debates of the sixteenth century. Among the issues explored in this dialogue were continuity in the communion of saints, prayers for or about the dead, the meaning of death, purgation, an interim state between death and the final general judgment, and the promise of resurrection. Agreements are affirmed on the basis of new insights, as readers will discover in this statement of Round XI.

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Lowell G. Almen was the first secretary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America for twenty years. Previously, he was editor of the Lutheran periodical with the largest circulation of any in North America. He is a graduate of Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, and Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota. He engaged in graduate study at Princeton Theological Seminary in New Jersey and St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota. He is the author of Old Songs for a New Journey, One Great Cloud of Witnesses, and More to the Story: The Legacy and Promise of Lutheran Pension and Benefit Plans. He was co-chair of the Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue in the United States (2005-2020) and coedited the dialogue reports of Round XI, The Hope of Eternal Life, and Round XII, Faithful Teaching.

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