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And the life everlasting

Title
And the life everlasting / by John Baillie.
Author
Baillie, John, 1886-1960.
Publication
New York : C. Scribner's, 1933.

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Description
xvi, 350 pages; 21 cm
Series Statement
The Ayer lectures of the Colgate-Rochester divinity school, Rochester, N.Y., 1932
Uniform Title
Ayer lectures of the Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, Rochester, N. Y. ; 1932.
Subject
  • Immortality
  • Future life
  • Immortalité
  • Vie future
  • Eeuwig leven
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
I. Contemporary questionings -- A. The modern revolt against otherworldliness -- B. And its historical origins -- II. The proper claims of earth -- A. The insight of modernity -- B. The glories of the secular -- C. The hope of earthly progress -- D. Some necessary discriminations -- III. Approach to the eternal prospect -- A. The ascent of Mount Pisgah -- B. Where New Testament thought begins -- IV. A tale-and some comments -- A. Ghostly survival among savage peoples -- B. In the classical world and in Israel -- C.A scientific rather than a religious dogma -- D. Its present scientific standing -- V. The sequel of the tale -- A. The beginnings of hope -- B. In Greece -- C. In India -- D. In Persia and in Judea -- E. The hope of Jesus -- F. The Christian hope.
OCLC
  • ocm09275447
  • 9275447
  • SCSB-235377
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library