The question of the progress, the apocalyptic end, and the
completion of history and the question of the life after death and
the resurrection of the human person differ and are interconnected
in the religions at the same time. The individual's completion and
the completion of the world, the historical communities and
humankind are conditional on each other.
The world religions offer more than an interpretation of present
history and the present world and existence of the human race. They
also convey to humankind a theory of world history and of history
before and above world history. This interpretation of universal
history in the religions can be apocalypticism as the theory of the
end of the world or apocalypticism and eschatology as the theory of
the end, completion, and transfiguration of world and history.
The completion of the world is inseparable from the completion
of the individual human life in immortality and vice versa.
Immortality is described in the Abrahamic religions as personal
resurrection; in Hinduism as entering the divine self, the Atman;
and in Buddhism as being united with the Buddha. How do the
religions interpret universal history and what statements do they
make about life after death?
Leading scholars of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity,
and Islam have created with this volume a first-hand source of
information, which enables the reader to gain a better
understanding of these five world religions and their teachings
about the end of history and the life after death of the human
person.
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