Progress, Apocalypse, and Completion of History and Life after Death of the Human Person in the World Religions / edited by Peter Koslowski

Englisch

Dordrecht : Springer, 2002

Online-Ressource (VIII, 142 p) : digital

Erscheint auch als (Druck-Ausgabe) : ISBN 9789048160280

Erscheint auch als (Druck-Ausgabe) : ISBN 9781402006470

Erscheint auch als (Druck-Ausgabe) : ISBN 9789401727921

978-94-017-2791-4

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-90-481-6028-0 (Druckausgabe)

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-2791-4

*Humanities ; Philosophy ; Religion (General) ; History ; Religion—Philosophy. ; Religion.

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: BL1-2790

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 200;

Book Industry Communication: HRA

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The question of the progress, the apocalyptic end, and the completion of history and the question of the life after death and the resurrection of the human person differ and are interconnected in the religions at the same time. The individual's completion and the completion of the world, the historical communities and humankind are conditional on each other. The world religions offer more than an interpretation of present history and the present world and existence of the human race. They also convey to humankind a theory of world history and of history before and above world history. This interpretation of universal history in the religions can be apocalypticism as the theory of the end of the world or apocalypticism and eschatology as the theory of the end, completion, and transfiguration of world and history. The completion of the world is inseparable from the completion of the individual human life in immortality and vice versa. Immortality is described in the Abrahamic religions as personal resurrection; in Hinduism as entering the divine self, the Atman; and in Buddhism as being united with the Buddha. How do the religions interpret universal history and what statements do they make about life after death? Leading scholars of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have created with this volume a first-hand source of information, which enables the reader to gain a better understanding of these five world religions and their teachings about the end of history and the life after death of the human person

 

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