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After Lives - A Guide to Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory (Paperback)
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After Lives - A Guide to Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory (Paperback)
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One of the most profound, deeply affecting questions we face as
human beings is the matter of our mortality-and its connection to
immortality. Ancient animist ghost cultures, Egyptian
mummification, late Jewish hopes of resurrection, Christian eternal
salvation, Muslim belief in hell and paradise all spring from a
remarkably consistent impulse to tether a triumph over death to our
conduct in life. In After Lives, British scholar John Casey
provides a rich historical and philosophical exploration of the
world beyond, from the ancient Egyptians to St. Thomas Aquinas,
from Martin Luther to modern Mormons. In a lively, wide-ranging
discussion, he examines such topics as predestination, purgatory,
Spiritualism, the Rapture, Armageddon and current Muslim
apocalyptics, as well as the impact of such influences as the New
Testament, St. Augustine, Dante, and the Second Vatican Council.
Ideas of heaven and hell, Casey argues, illuminate how we
understand the ultimate nature of sin, justice, punishment, and our
moral sense itself. The concepts of eternal bliss and eternal
punishment express-and test-our ideas of good and evil. For
example, the ancient Egyptians saw the afterlife as flowing from
ma'at, a sense of being in harmony with life, a concept that
includes truth, order, justice, and the fundamental law of the
universe. "It is an optimistic view of life," he writes. "It is an
ethic that connects wisdom with moral goodness." Perhaps just as
revealing, Casey finds, are modern secular interpretations of
heaven and hell, as he probes the place of goodness, virtue, and
happiness in the age of psychology and scientific investigation.
With elegant prose, a magisterial grasp of a vast literary and
religious history, and moments of humor and irony, After Lives
sheds new light on the question of life, death, and morality in
human culture.
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