The Life of the World to Come: Near-Death Experience and Christian Hope: The Albert Cardinal Meyer Lectures

by Carol Zaleski

Book Overview

Critics of religion have argued that Christianity's success stems from its promise of eternal life, that people become Christian at bottom merely to cope with their fear of death. Contemporary theologians and philosophers, highly sensitive to this charge, tend to skirt the issue of life after death. To speak of the afterlife is at best to engage in wishful thinking, at worst to descend to the level of pop religion, encounters with angels, and UFO...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195103351
• ISBN13: 9780195103359
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.8"