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this assignment and struggling to find material, could you kindly help me out with this: In five pages, answer the following: Death figures prominently in the works of Julian of Norwich and Thomas à Kempis. What do the ways in which they view death, the events leading up to it, and the prospect of the afterlife say about their theology and spirituality? I've already gotten ''help'' on this question, however, the response I've received does not seem to make either grammatical nor logical sense. You could use it, not sure how it will help you but it could. In overall religions, hope act as a unifying variable and all summon providers and speakers go for offering it to their followers or audience members. 

Catholicism, through instruction, shows all the essential prerequisites for one to carry on a decent and without sin life on the earth so as to have an everlasting life after his natural presence. These are the fundamental center teachings that are kept on a basic level by Christians, particularly of the Catholic faithful. Life after death is underlined to all devotees, and sin falls into two classes. As such there is mortal sin which is a genuine contradiction of the supreme law of God in this manner dismissing one totally from God. Thomas à Kempis and Julian of Norwich are two Christian figures who expounded the issue of death and the life-after-death. Julian is an anchoress—a woman who dedicated herself to God and lived in a cell. Like her counterparts of 1373, she is Roman Catholic and trusts that the last times give exceptional blessing grace and fortify a wiped-out individual substantial and profoundly at death (Barratt, 2002). Remembering her requirement for a more profound affection for Christ, she has spoken to God for three things: • more grounded comprehension of Christ's enthusiasm • an ailment unto demise while still youthful, permitting her to experience all that a body and soul involvement in death (counting assault by demons and occurrence of the last rituals) yet without genuine passing—so she may figure out how to live more aware of God • Three "injuries/ wounds:" supreme humility, kind sympathy, and enduring yearning toward God. It appears her inordinate supplication is being answered. Julian has in fact gotten to be deathly ill. Everybody around her surrenders all expectations regarding her life. She likewise trusts she is biting the dust. 

The last ritual is administered to her (Barratt, 2002). From her vision which she recounts seeing the ‘other world’ give a tip of what she regards as the causes of death. According to Christian teachings, incarnation precedes transgression or sin; all mankind really is unified with Christ, and Blessed Julian perceives two wills: one an arousing will - she composes - and the other a crucial will. Mankind, one in Christ, will never, from its root, be isolated from God - and hence has a will that remaining parts kept in God; yet in the event that transgression bargains that solidarity in actuality, partitioning its tendency, then men have additionally another shallow will, with which it is workable for a man even to sin. Or more all man's transgression is not "mortal" sin. According to Barratt (2002), we cannot take the dialect of Blessed Julian softly. Thomas Kempis appears to say something else. In his book chapter 23 she talks about human nature and his address regarding death that appears to addresses us of unsinfulness-sic, as suitable to Christian flawlessness. That is to such an extent as to ask in what measure in connection to these things that the single individual can be isolated from mankind. On the off chance that Christ, who is Keeper and Savior, in whose measure a man is made a portion of this mankind, then is the Keeper and Savior through the very reality that humankind is one in Jesus Christ who is Son of God (Rorem, 2012). Julian in her whole instructing does not mean to reduce the greatness of St Thomas. Accordingly, it suffices to state that the instinct of Blessed Julian is more significant and basic than are the writings of St Thomas. There can't be for us the likelihood of "knowing" God, who intercedes elegance, with the exception of through imbued examination, from an activity of God which gets through your internal potential (demise) and which makes you infiltrate into his puzzle. Thomas, in the blink of an eye before his passing, had a phenomenal supernatural ordeal. In the least difficult instinct of reality that was his thought, in a moment just, he entered the Christian secret; such that all he had written in numerous years of educating and research, appeared to him to be just a negligible thing (Rorem, 2012). Julian's instructing can somehow review that advanced theological teaching, in which sins, despite the fact that extremely grave, may bring death, however, cannot sentence one to that death, if the individual stays in the place of worship and lives in his empathy. Regardless the Excommunicate can encounter an aggregate partition. This is the basic instructing. 

However despite the fact that the miscreant encounters brokenness He (Jesus) can stay in confidence and trust. Such believe can support one's connection with Christ that you are part of His family. Thomas advocates for preparedness that entails repenting for, according to him, no one knows the time of the second coming (Rorem, 2012). Technically, Thomas argues that sin could only distant humanity from the Supreme Being and the only penalty is death unless one decides to repent. Thomas argues: ‘Upbeat and astute is he who attempts to be amid his life as he wishes to be found at his passing. For these things will manage the cost of our sure hope of a glad passing; absolute contempt of the world; intense longing to develop in sacredness; affection for order; the act of compensation; prepared submission; self-denial; the course of each trial for the love of Christ. While you appreciate wellbeing, you can benefit much; however when infection comes, little should be possible. Disorder improves few, and the individuals who make regular journeys at times get sacredness by so doing.’ (Thomas a Kempis: The Imitation of Christ p. 23, 2016) Both Julian and Thomas had the same view regarding life after death. As indicated by Catholicism paradise is the most desired place as a place for the individuals who bite the dust in God's beauty and friendship. Persons in heaven will encounter the genuine nature of the most elevated God. Drill lets us know that paradise is the place life is impeccable with the Most Holy Trinity. It is the place there is consequent end and finish of the most sought human longings, a condition of uncertain happiness and satisfaction. Living in paradise is to have the genuine bliss living with Jesus Christ. 

Catholicism grasps the way that when Jesus Christ passed on and revived opened up the path for us to go to paradise (Rorem, 2012). Favored life is loaded with absolute ownership of products of salvation finished by Jesus Christ. The individuals who accept and have persevered in believing his will; are the ones bound to enter his unceasing rest. From both Julian’s and Thomas’s teachings, it is justifiable to assert that we all make Christ's body, which is the church. Indeed on the off chance that all the Church were not handy man, despite the fact that man was in Paradise he would be lost, since then he could discover his salvation just through emptiness. In any case, if God, who is immortal, lives in the spirit, even the whole Church could be inside him. The Church can't be more noteworthy than God. Also, the mind of man as of now has God! The Trinity as of now makes his residence in the spirit of humanity and its emptiness! From the two teaching, it is clear that the two Christian figures had on apparent believe regarding religion and spirituality. According to Julian, for instance, althou