After Lives

Zusatztext John Casey gives a magisterial overview of the Western eschatological tradition death, judgement, heaven and hell providing sympathetic and lucid summaries of a vast range of different and at times conflicting sources that is a real pleasure to read. Informationen zum Autor JOHN CASEY is a novelist and Pushcart Prize-nominated poet from New Hampshire. He is the author of The Devolution Trilogy, Raw Thoughts: A Mindful Fusion of Poetic and Photographic Art, Meridian: A Raw Thoughts Book, and The Barn: A Novella Mystery. A Veteran combat and test pilot, Casey also served as a Diplomat and International Affairs Strategist at U.S. embassies in Germany and Ethiopia, the Pentagon, and elsewhere. He is inspired by the incredible spectrum of people, places and cultures he has experienced in life. Klappentext One of the most profound, deeply affecting questions we face as human beings is the matter of our mortality--and its connection to immortality. Ancient animist ghost cultures, Egyptian mummification, late Jewish hopes of resurrection, Christian eternal salvation, Muslim belief in hell and paradise all spring from a remarkably consistent impulse to tether a triumph over death to our conduct in life. Zusammenfassung A fascinating exploration of ideas of life after death ranging from ancient times to the present and from religion and philosophy to literature and science. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART 1: DARK FUTURES Prologue: STEPHEN DEDALUS'S HELL Chapter One: AFTER LIVES Chapter Two: EGYPT Chapter Three: MESOPOTAMIA AND ISRAEL Chapter Four: GREECE AND ROME Chapter Five: THE CHRISTIAN BEGINNINGS Chapter Six: DANTE: INFERNO Chapter Seven: PREDESTINATION: AUGUSTINE TO CALVIN AND BEYOND Chapter Eight: THE DECLINE OF HELL Part II: PURGATORY Chapter Nine: ROME'S HAPPIEST INSPIRATION? HEAVEN Chapter Ten: HEAVEN: EGYPT, MESOPOTAMIA, ISRAEL Chapter Eleven: BODIES FLESHLY AND SPIRITUAL Chapter Twelve: DANTE: PARADISO Chapter Thirteen: CELESTIAL PLEASURES: RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION HEAVENS Chapter Fourteen: HEAVENLY SPECULATIONS Chapter Fifteen: HEAVEN SEEN AND HEARD: SWEDENBORG Chapter Sixteen: WITH EASY INTERCOURSE PASS TO AND FRO Chapter Seventeen: SCORING IN HEAVEN Index ...

Autorentext
JOHN CASEY is a novelist and Pushcart Prize-nominated poet from New Hampshire. He is the author of The Devolution Trilogy, Raw Thoughts: A Mindful Fusion of Poetic and Photographic Art, Meridian: A Raw Thoughts Book, and The Barn: A Novella Mystery. A Veteran combat and test pilot, Casey also served as a Diplomat and International Affairs Strategist at U.S. embassies in Germany and Ethiopia, the Pentagon, and elsewhere. He is inspired by the incredible spectrum of people, places and cultures he has experienced in life.

Klappentext
One of the most profound, deeply affecting questions we face as human beings is the matter of our mortality--and its connection to immortality. Ancient animist ghost cultures, Egyptian mummification, late Jewish hopes of resurrection, Christian eternal salvation, Muslim belief in hell and paradise all spring from a remarkably consistent impulse to tether a triumph over death to our conduct in life.

Zusammenfassung
A fascinating exploration of ideas of life after death ranging from ancient times to the present and from religion and philosophy to literature and science.

Inhalt
PART 1: DARK FUTURES
Prologue: STEPHEN DEDALUS'S HELL
Chapter One: AFTER LIVES
Chapter Two: EGYPT
Chapter Three: MESOPOTAMIA AND ISRAEL
Chapter Four: GREECE AND ROME
Chapter Five: THE CHRISTIAN BEGINNINGS
Chapter Six: DANTE: INFERNO
Chapter Seven: PREDESTINATION: AUGUSTINE TO CALVIN AND BEYOND
Chapter Eight: THE DECLINE OF HELL
Part II: PURGATORY
Chapter Nine: ROME'S HAPPIEST INSPIRATION?
HEAVEN
Chapter Ten: HEAVEN: EGYPT, MESOPOTAMIA, ISRAEL
Chapter Eleven: BODIES FLESHLY AND SPIRITUAL
Chapter Twelve: DANTE: PARADISO
Chapter Thirteen: CELESTIAL PLEASURES: RENAISSANCE AND
REFORMATION HEAVENS
Chapter Fourteen: HEAVENLY SPECULATIONS
Chapter Fifteen: HEAVEN SEEN AND HEARD: SWEDENBORG
Chapter Sixteen: WITH EASY INTERCOURSE PASS TO AND FRO
Chapter Seventeen: SCORING IN HEAVEN
Index

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