Carlos Blanco

Why Resurrection? (eBook, ePUB)

An Introduction to the Belief in the Afterlife in Judaism and Christianity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Few questions exert such a great fascination on human conscience as those related to the meaning of life, history, and death. The belief in the resurrection of the dead constitutes an answer to a real challenge: What is the meaning of life and history in the midst of a world in which evil, injustice, and ultimately death exist? Resurrection is an instrument serving a broader, more encompassing reality: the Kingdom of God. Such a utopian Kingdom gathers the final response to the problem of theodicy and to the enigma of history. This book seeks to understand the idea of resurrection not only as a theological but also as a philosophical category (as expression of the collective aspirations of humanity), combining historical, theological, and philosophical analyses in dialogue with some of the principal streams of contemporary Western thought.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498273978
• Artikelnr.: 55265446

Autorenporträt

Carlos Blanco is the author of El pensamiento de la apocaliptica judia, Why Resurrection? (Pickwick Publications), and Mentes maravillosas que cambiaron la humanidad. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University, and he is currently a researcher and professor at Instituto de Cultura y Sociedad (Spain).