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Eternal life : a new vision : beyond religion, beyond theism, beyond heaven and hell
- Title
- Eternal life : a new vision : beyond religion, beyond theism, beyond heaven and hell / John Shelby Spong.
- Author
- Spong, John Shelby.
- Publication
- New York : Harper One, c2009.
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Details
- Description
- xx, 268 p.; 22 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-251) and index.
- Contents
- Setting the stage : a necessary personal word -- Life is accidental -- All life is deeply linked -- Dancing with death : the discovery of mortality -- The lure of religion -- Life's dominant drive : survival -- Religion's role in the fear of death -- The faces of religion -- The tools of religious manipulation -- Ridding religion of both heaven and hell -- Putting away childish things : the death of religion -- The shift of the religious paradigm -- Who am I? What is God? -- The approach of the mystics -- Resurrection : a symbol and a reality -- Hiding, thinking, being -- I believe in life beyond death -- Epilogue : defining the choice to die.
- Call Number
- JFD 09-3190
- ISBN
- 9780060762063
- 0060762063
- LCCN
- 2008051443
- OCLC
- 2008051443
- Author
- Spong, John Shelby.
- Title
- Eternal life : a new vision : beyond religion, beyond theism, beyond heaven and hell / John Shelby Spong.
- Imprint
- New York : Harper One, c2009.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-251) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 09-3190