His epilogue, an epigraph-worthy epigram.

Yesterday, I came across the obituary of a scholar of early Christianity, Henry Chadwick. The Times article featured a resonant quotation. If your life could only be summed up in one line, here's hoping it's as good as this:

“Nothing is sadder than someone who has lost his memory, and the church which has lost its memory is in the same state of senility.”