Life hereafter : the rise and decline of a tradition / Paul Crittenden.
Crittenden, Paul, author.
2021
BT903 .C75 2021
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Title Life hereafter : the rise and decline of a tradition / Paul Crittenden.
Author Crittenden, Paul, author.
ISBN 9783030542795 (electronic bk.)
3030542793 (electronic bk.)
3030542785
9783030542788
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54279-5
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource (viii, 307 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-54279-5 doi
Call Number BT903 .C75 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 236/.2
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction
God, Creation, and the Biblical Moral Order
From Sheol to the Resurrection of the Dead
Greek Themes: From Homer to Plato and Aristotle
Salvation or Damnation: From Paul to Augustine
Thomas Aquinas: Body and Soul
Thomas Aquinas: Life in the World to Come
Eschatology: From Dante to the Secular Age
Eschatology Now: The Catholic Case
Last things.

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