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Life Hereafter - The Rise and Decline of a Tradition (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Life Hereafter - The Rise and Decline of a Tradition (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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In this book, Paul Crittenden offers a critical guide to the
problematic origins of biblical teaching about the afterlife and
the way in which it was subsequently developed by Church
authorities and theologians-Origen, Augustine, and Thomas Aquinas
in particular. In the post-Reformation era the focus falls on the
challenges set by modern secularism. The tradition encompasses a
body of interconnected themes: an apocalyptic war in which the
Kingdom of God triumphs over Satan's powers of darkness; salvation
in Christ; the immortality of the soul; and finally the
resurrection of the dead and the last judgment, ratifying an
afterlife of eternal bliss for the morally good and punishment in
hell for wrongdoers. The critique questions these beliefs on
evidential, ethical, and philosophical grounds. The argument
overall is that what lies beyond death is beyond knowledge. The one
fundamental truth that can be distilled from the once compelling
body of Christian eschatological belief-for believers and
unbelievers alike-is the importance of living ethically.
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