Keith Ward

Religion and Human Nature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

stressing the idea of soterial, as opposed to forensic, justice. Finally, a Christian view of personal immortality and the 'end of all things' is developed in conversation with Jewish and Muslim beliefs about judgement and resurrection.

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What do the great world religions say about the soul and its ultimate destiny? This book, the third in Keith Ward's magisterial tetralogy on comparative religion, presents the beliefs of six major traditions about human nature, the way to immortality, and the end of the world. It offers a major philosophical analysis of beliefs in reincarnation and the resurrection of the body. Finally it constructs a Christian interpretation, in the light of scientific knowledge and a global religious worldview.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780198269618
• ISBN-10: 0198269617
• Artikelnr.: 22351357

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Non-Dualism (Advaita Vedanta)
3: The Search for the Self (Vaishnava Hinduism)
4: The Doctrine of Rebirth
5: Buddhism and the Self
6: Evolutionary Naturalism
7: The Embodied Soul
8: Original Sin
9: The Doctrine of Atonement
10: Salvation by Grace
11: The World to Come
12: Human Destiny in Judaism and Islam
13: Human Destiny in Christianity
14: The Ultimate End of All Things
15: Conclusion