- Paperback: 496 pages
- Publisher: Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S. (29 Oct 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0664255094
- ISBN-13: 978-0664255091
- Product Dimensions: 19.5 x 13.7 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 966,135 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In this cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study, John Hick draws upon major world religions, as well as biology, psychology, parapsychology, anthropology, and philosophy, to explore the mystery of death. He argues that scientific and philosophical objections to the idea of survival after death can be challenged, and he claims that human inadequacy in facing suffering supports the basic religious argument for immortality.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a key work on the subject of death and eternal life in human thinking and philosophy - it's unique in that it takes account of all the main world religions and their theories too, to offer a short, medium, and long term 'destiny' of what may well happen to humanity if indeed there is a God/Divine Reality overarching the universe we live in...
Hick is one of the foremost philosophers of religion and has been for a very long time, and though this book was written in 1976, it's not really needed updating as let's face it the issues don't change much! His style is a model for any student, he is lucid and always erudite, but also provocative in his thinking which back then was majorly challenging the mainstream Christian theology.
He moved on from this phase in his thinking but he did us all a favour along the way in producing what in many universities is the key or a key textbook on the subject and i commend it to anyone with a desire for answers to the mysteries of death and eternal life.
Hick is one of the foremost philosophers of religion and has been for a very long time, and though this book was written in 1976, it's not really needed updating as let's face it the issues don't change much! His style is a model for any student, he is lucid and always erudite, but also provocative in his thinking which back then was majorly challenging the mainstream Christian theology.
He moved on from this phase in his thinking but he did us all a favour along the way in producing what in many universities is the key or a key textbook on the subject and i commend it to anyone with a desire for answers to the mysteries of death and eternal life.
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A journey through death and what might lie beyond ...
16 Oct 1999
Format:Paperback
I first read John Hick about 12 years ago and this was the first of his books. My understanding of Christianity in general and the nature of life and death in particular were significantly altered by this book and others by Hick.
Imagine taking a ride through the various theories of life after death as presented by various religions, each one being presented so that you say, "Wow -- now this is it." Hick, in his masterful way, then says, "No, not really, and here's why..." So, throughout the book (although the first 200 pages are less thrilling)you are being led through this maze all the time wondering if, by the time the book ends, you're doing be presented with something that makes sense. The ride is worth it -- you are well rewarded.
Again, nearly anything by Hick is worth reading, but this is a book to settle down into and give yourself up to. It's not light reading by any means, but it is fascinating.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
IS THERE LIFE AFTER DEATH?
15 Sep 2010
Format:Paperback
John Hick
Death and Eternal Life
(New York: Harper & Row, 1976) 495 pages
A British professor of philosophy reviews the Western Christian
and Eastern Hindu and Buddhist ideas about self, death, and life after death.
He specifically examines immortality (survival of a disembodied mind),
resurrection (a new life in another form),
and reincarnation (a new life in a different body).
Heaven and reincarnation may not be as far apart as they seem at first.
Hick finally invents his own hypothesis of several lives after death,
thru which we might reach moral and spiritual fulfillment.
An interesting and well-informed book.
If you would like to read other books about life after death,
search the following term on the Internet:
"IS THERE LIFE AFTER DEATH? THE BEST BOOKS".
James Leonard Park, skeptic.
Death and Eternal Life
(New York: Harper & Row, 1976) 495 pages
A British professor of philosophy reviews the Western Christian
and Eastern Hindu and Buddhist ideas about self, death, and life after death.
He specifically examines immortality (survival of a disembodied mind),
resurrection (a new life in another form),
and reincarnation (a new life in a different body).
Heaven and reincarnation may not be as far apart as they seem at first.
Hick finally invents his own hypothesis of several lives after death,
thru which we might reach moral and spiritual fulfillment.
An interesting and well-informed book.
If you would like to read other books about life after death,
search the following term on the Internet:
"IS THERE LIFE AFTER DEATH? THE BEST BOOKS".
James Leonard Park, skeptic.
Thought Provoking
29 May 2012
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
If Christians are looking for support for their Hellenized version of the afterlife, this is not the book to provide that. But if you are open to exploring new ideas and philosophy that is compatible with a Christian faith, but maybe not consistent with its history, this book is a great read. I thought more about the afetr life, our ideas of it, and why we believe the way we do, while reading this book, than any other book I have read. The book should be part of any Christian library, not because it supports your view, but because it helps you think more deeply about them. I finished the book, not agreeing with Hick's final conclusion, but thankful for spending the time to read what he wrote.
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