| THE HORIZON |
13 |
| I. Deal as entry into light? |
15 |
| 1. The dead never learn |
15 |
| 2. Abolition of death? |
18 |
| 3. Experiences with dying people |
22 |
| 4. A view of the other side? |
26 |
| 5. The ambiguity in experiences of dying |
29 |
| 6. What the death? |
33 |
| 7. Three crucial insights |
36 |
| II. The hereafter - wishful thinking |
38 |
| 1. And nothing comes after? |
38 |
| 2. God - reflection of man |
40 |
| 3. The hereafter as the alienated here and now |
44 |
| 4. Eternal life - wish or reality? |
47 |
| 5. Suspicion of projection in psychoanalysis |
49 |
| 6. A meaning to death? |
52 |
| 7 The Either-Or |
61 |
| III. Models of belief in eternity in the religions |
63 |
| 1. The great perhaps |
63 |
| 2. Religion at the origin of the mankind |
65 |
| 3. Religion of stone-age man |
70 |
| 4. Basic consensus and basic difference today |
74 |
| 5. Final state as being or as not-being |
78 |
| 6. A single or several lives? |
81 |
| 7. Arguments for or against reincarnation |
83 |
| 8. Eternal recurrence of the same |
88 |
| 9. Alternatives |
92 |
| HOPE |
|
| IV. Resurrection of the dead? |
97 |
| 1. Is eternal life ascertainable? |
97 |
| 2. A question of trust |
101 |
| 3. Do all paths come to an end at the grace? |
104 |
| 4. Belief in a resurrection - a late phenomenon |
108 |
| 5. The first documents |
111 |
| 6. Resurrection belief - an apocalyptic speculation? |
116 |
| 7. Jesus and his death |
119 |
| V. Difficulties with the resurrection of Jesus |
125 |
| 1. Apocryphal |
125 |
| 2. The recognized testimonies |
129 |
| 3. Devolopments and complications |
130 |
| 4. The earliest Easter testimony |
133 |
| 5. The essential Easter massage |
138 |
| 6. Resurrection of the body? |
140 |
| 7. What does "living eternally" mean? |
144 |
| 8. Resurrection today |
146 |
| VI. Between heaven and hell |
152 |
| 1. Admitted early into a house of light |
152 |
| 2. Jesus's ascension - not a journey into space |
154 |
| 3. Journey to hell or journey to death? |
157 |
| 4. An action of Jesus in the underworld? |
159 |
| 5. Problematic belief in hell |
164 |
| 6. Jesus and hell |
168 |
| 7. Hell - eternal? |
172 |
| 8. The heaven of faith |
180 |
| THE CONSEQUENCES |
185 |
| VII. Dying with human dignity |
187 |
| 1. Medicine without humannity? |
187 |
| 2. Medical ethics without religion? |
192 |
| 3. New approach to sickness and therapy |
196 |
| 4. Suppression of death |
199 |
| 5. New approach to dying |
202 |
| 6. Assisted dying - passive |
206 |
| 7. Assisted dying - also active? |
209 |
| 8. Dying with Christian dignity |
213 |
| VIII. Heaven on earth? |
219 |
| 1. Why are we on earth? |
219 |
| 2. Critique of heaven becomes critique of earth |
221 |
| 3. A realm of freedom? |
228 |
| 4. Opening into paradise? |
231 |
| 5. Imminent expectation secularized |
238 |
| 6. Why hope for a heaven? |
244 |
| 7. Enlightened about ourselves |
248 |
| IX. End of the world and kingdom of God |
252 |
| 1. Is the end of the world feasible? |
252 |
| 2. The end of the world in tearms of physics |
255 |
| 3. The end of the world as judgement of the world |
259 |
| 4. Consummation of the world as God's kingdom |
264 |
| 5. Only seeing God? |
267 |
| 6. The new earth and the new heaven |
270 |
| Epilogue: assent to eternal life |
277 |
| What is the point of the whole scheme? |
277 |
| Trust or mistrust |
280 |
| Is it easier for believers? |
283 |
| What difference would it make…? |
286 |
| Summary |
287 |
| Abbreviations |
291 |
| Notes |
293 |
| Index |
321 |
Tác giả: Rudolf Bultmann
Tác giả: Tony Kelly
Tác giả: Vô Danh
Tác giả: Lm. Fx. Tân Yên
Tác giả: Nhiều Tác Giả
Tác giả: Felipe Gomez, SJ.
Tác giả: Vô Danh
