Religion and Human Nature

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Overview

What do the great world religions say about the soul and its ultimate destiny? This book, the third in Keith Ward's magisterial tetralogy on comparative religion, presents the beliefs of six major traditions about human nature, the way to immortality, and the end of the world. It offers a major philosophical analysis of beliefs in reincarnation and the resurrection of the body. Finally it constructs a Christian interpretation, in the light of scientific knowledge and a global religious worldview.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780198269656
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Publication date: 1/28/1999
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 344
  • Sales rank: 959,658
  • Lexile: 1460L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 5.40 (w) x 8.40 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Table of Contents

1 Introduction 1
2 Non-Dualism (Advaita Vedanta) 10
3 The Search for the Self (Vaishnava Hinduism) 36
4 The Doctrine of Rebirth 51
5 Buddhism and the Self 76
6 Evolutionary Naturalism 113
7 The Embodied Soul 134
8 Original Sin 159
9 The Doctrine of Atonement 186
10 Salvation by Grace 204
11 The World to Come 229
12 Human Destiny in Judaism and Islam 255
13 Human Destiny in Christianity 271
14 The Ultimate End of All Things 296
15 Conclusion 324
Author Index 329
Subject Index 331
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