Luke Jeffrey Janssen

Soul-Searching (eBook, ePUB)

The Evolution of Judeo-Christian Thinking on the Soul and the Afterlife

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

There are well over one hundred different views of the nature of human existence; though the Bible may rule out many of these, there still remains a large number that are all compatible with Scripture. The Bible never explicitly defines the nature of the soul or spirit, which is actually quite puzzling or even ironic, given that one major aim of Scripture is spiritual development and ultimate questions about the soul. In fact, Judeo-Christian thinking on those questions has been evolving over the course of four thousand years. This book documents that evolution as a man named Abram left Babylon four thousand years ago, journeying through the lands and the philosophies of civilizations preceding him by many more thousands of years, while he and his descendants (both physical and spiritual) unpacked their understanding of our inner being--the human soul--and the afterlife. That journey is followed to the present day, and examines how a critically thinking Christian can embrace a theology of the human soul that is fully compatible with modern scientific findings, including explanations for consciousness, mind, and soul.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781532679834
• Artikelnr.: 57894444

Autorenporträt

Luke J. Janssen is a Professor of Medicine at McMaster University at Hamilton, Ontario. He is the author of 140 scientific papers, as well as the book Reaching into Plato's Cave (2014), and blogs regularly on the subject of faith-and-science at https://lukejjanssen.wordpress.com/.