Beyond Death: Theological and Philosophical Reflections of Life after Death

✍ Scribed by Dan Cohn-Sherbok, Christopher Lewis (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 1995
Tongue: English
Leaves: 227
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introductory Reflections: Life beyond Life....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
A Christian Approach to Eternal Life....Pages 13-26
‘Go Joyfully’: The Mystery of Death and Resurrection....Pages 27-41
The Christian Heaven....Pages 42-53
The Jewish Doctrine of Hell....Pages 54-65
Life and Beyond in the Qur’an....Pages 66-79
The Indestructible Soul — Indian and Asian Beliefs....Pages 80-94
Death’s Rituals....Pages 95-103
Mourning: The Song is Over but the Memory Lingers On....Pages 104-115
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Death and Immortality: Towards a Global Synthesis....Pages 119-126
Beyond Death: The Case of New Religions....Pages 127-136
Death and the Afterlife: New Approaches to an Old Question....Pages 137-144
Are Near-Death Experiences Really Suggestive of Life after Death?....Pages 145-163
The Near-Death Experience: A Glimpse of Heaven and Hell?....Pages 164-172
Human Survival of Death: Evidence and Prospects....Pages 173-182
Life after Death: A Fate Worse than Death....Pages 183-198
Beyond the Crematorium — Popular Belief....Pages 199-206
Back Matter....Pages 207-219

✦ Subjects

Philosophy of Religion; Popular Science, general

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