The Life of the World to Come[1][2][3]

The Life of the World to Come was released in 2009. A live performance of the songs with Rachel Ware was filmed by Rian Johnson and released for Record Store Day in 2010. It is available here.

Track listing

1 Samuel 15:23
Psalms 40:2
Genesis 3:23
Philippians 3:20-21
Hebrews 11:40
Genesis 30:3
Romans 10:9
1 John 4:16
Matthew 25:21
Deuteronomy 2:10
Isaiah 45:23
Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace

Bonus tracks

Enoch 18:14
Proverbs 6:27

Liner notes

thanks to the Essenes [4] and peace to the scribes [5].

Footnotes

(Annotated TMG) "It's twelve new songs: twelve hard lessons the Bible taught me, kind of." — Darnielle, John (2009, July 28). The Good News The Mountain Goats. Retrieved May 16, 2012. ↩ The title is derived from the closing lines of the Nicene Creed, which in the Roman Catholic version states, "... We look for the resurrection of the dead, / and the life of the world to come. / Amen." The Nicene Creed, Catechism of the Catholic Church, The Vatican, retrieved May 16, 2012. ↩ This album and every song on it is part of the informal series of Biblical references. Generally, each song would be individually referenced to denote this, but as every song on the album falls into this category I considered this unnecessary. ↩ The Essenes were a Jewish religious order around 200 BCE to 100 AD from which the Dead Sea Scrolls are believed to have originated. ↩ Scribes in Israel were the copiers of the Torah as well as literate members of society who performed professional tasks related to being able to read, write, and manage documents. ↩