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Progress, Apocalypse, and Completion of History and Life after Death of the Human Person in the World Religions

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Editors:
  1. Peter Koslowski

    1. Hannover Institute of Philosophical Research, Hannover, Germany

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Part of the book series: A Discourse of the World Religions (DOWR, volume 4)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Progress, Apocalypticism and the Completion of History, and Life after Death in the World Religions: Introduction

    • Peter Koslowski
    Pages 1-7

  3. Reincarnation and Personal Immortality

    • N. S. S. Raman
    Pages 8-21

  4. The Immortality of the Soul and the Problem of Life and Death in the Zen-Buddhist Thought of Dogen

    • Kogaku Arifuku
    Pages 22-39

  5. On Apocalypticism in Judaism

    • Moshe Idel
    Pages 40-74

  6. Discussion of the Progress of History, Apocalypticism, Rebirth, and the Immortality of the Soul in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism

    • Peter Koslowski
    Pages 75-79

  7. The Progress and end of History, Life after Death, and the Resurrection of the Human Person in Christianity

    • Wolfhart Pannenberg
    Pages 80-88

  8. The Islamic Doctrine of the Eschatological Completion of History and Eternal Life

    • Mahmoud Zakzouk
    Pages 89-100

  9. Discussion of the Progress and Completion of History, Life after Death, and the Resurrection of Human Persons in Christianity and Islam

    • Peter Koslowski
    Pages 101-103

  10. The Progress and End Of History, Life after Death, and the Resurrection of the Human Person in the World Religions

    • Richard Schenk
    Pages 104-120

  11. Concluding Discussion of the Progress and Completion of History, Life After Death, and Resurrection in the World Religions

    • Peter Koslowski
    Pages 121-125

  12. Conversation between the Representatives of the World Religions after the Conclusion of the Public Discourse

    • Peter Koslowski
    Pages 126-130

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 131-142
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The soul is so closely connected to life that one cannot think that it could ever be separated from life and, consequently, be mortal. Therefore, it can only be immortal. This argument from Plato's Phaedo for the immortality of the soul exhibits both a great strength and a great weakness. Its strength is that it is dif­ ficult for anyone to think that the soul could ever exist without life. Its weakness is, first, that not all religions accept a soul that remains the same as the center of the person - thus one speaks, for instance, in Buddhism of a "soulless theory of the human being" - and, second, that what is true does not depend on what we can think, but on what we recognize in experience and thought. The religions believe in the existence of a power that can work contrary to our experience that the soul in death is not separated from life. How the reli­ gions believe they can establish this continued life after death and how faith in this life is related in the religions to the interpretation of history, its progress, its apocalyptic end, and its eschatological completion and transfiguration is the theme of this book. In the culture of the West in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, faith in the secular progress of the technological control of nature and the economic or­ ganization of society was the enemy of faith in the immortality of the soul.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Hannover Institute of Philosophical Research, Hannover, Germany

    Peter Koslowski

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Progress, Apocalypse, and Completion of History and Life after Death of the Human Person in the World Religions

  • Editors: Peter Koslowski

  • Series Title: A Discourse of the World Religions

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2791-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0647-0Published: 30 June 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6028-0Published: 07 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-2791-4Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1572-5545

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 142

  • Topics: Religious Studies, general, Philosophy of Religion, History, general

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