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The Resurrection of the Soul*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2011

John B. Cobb Jr
Affiliation:
School of Theology at Claremont

Extract

After Immanuel Kant the issue of whether there is life after death moved to the periphery in the writings of major Protestant thinkers. Of course, the great eschatological images have continued to play a role. There have been discussions of the resurrection of the body and the immortality of the soul showing the differences in the anthropologies underlying the two forms of hope. But it is usually difficult to determine what the theologian actually expects will happen after death. The focus is on the symbolic value of these images or on their existential meaning.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1987

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References

page 220 note * Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality (corrected edition; ed. David Ray Griffin and Donald W. Sherbume; New York: The Free Press, 1978) 308.