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The Resurrection of Immortality : an Essay in Philosophical Eschatology.
If humans are not capable of immortality, then eschatological doctrines of heaven and hell make little sense. On that Christians agree. But not all Christians agree on whether humans are essentially immortal. Some hold that the early church was right to borrow from the ancient Greek philosophers and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Eugene :
Wipf and Stock Publishers,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | If humans are not capable of immortality, then eschatological doctrines of heaven and hell make little sense. On that Christians agree. But not all Christians agree on whether humans are essentially immortal. Some hold that the early church was right to borrow from the ancient Greek philosophers and to bring their sense of immortality to bear on the interpretation of biblical passages about the afterlife. Others, however, suggest that we are inherently mortal, and only conditionally immortal. This latter view is usually associated with an annihilationist interpretation of the doctrine of hell. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (120 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-104) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781498243483 1498243487 |