Man and His Destiny in the Great Religions: An Historical and Comparative Study Containing the Wilde Lectures in Natural and Comparative Religion Delivered in the University of Oxford, 1954-1957 |
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... tion to the Yahwist doctrine of descent into Sheol , which was virtual annihilation . The concept of a judgment , subsequent on the resurrec- tion , which would determine the eternal state of each individual is clearly an innovation of ...
... tion to the Yahwist doctrine of descent into Sheol , which was virtual annihilation . The concept of a judgment , subsequent on the resurrec- tion , which would determine the eternal state of each individual is clearly an innovation of ...
Page 181
... tion which was placed upon the memorial to the Athenian soldiers who fell in the battle at Potidaea in 432 B.C. reveals with a stark realism the accepted view of death : " The air has received their souls , the earth their bodies ...
... tion which was placed upon the memorial to the Athenian soldiers who fell in the battle at Potidaea in 432 B.C. reveals with a stark realism the accepted view of death : " The air has received their souls , the earth their bodies ...
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... tion of Hebrew thought that a human being is essentially a psycho- physical organism so that survival of death must entail full restoration of the physical as of the psychical constituents.1 Further , this resurrec- tion is regarded as ...
... tion of Hebrew thought that a human being is essentially a psycho- physical organism so that survival of death must entail full restoration of the physical as of the psychical constituents.1 Further , this resurrec- tion is regarded as ...
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¹ Cf Accordingly Ahriman Ahura Mazdah Allah ancient Anthropologie religieuse appears ātman belief body Brandon Buddhist Buddhist Thought burial Chinese Christian concept concerned cult culture dead death deity divine doctrine Duchesne-Guillemin earth Egypt Egyptian Enkidu Enûma elish Epic of Gilgamesh Erman eschatology essential evidence evil existence expression fact faith fate funerary Gilgamesh gods gospel Granet Greek Hebrew Heidel human destiny human nature idea immortality Indian individual interpretation Iranian Israel Jesus Jewish living logic Lord magical man's mankind Mercer Mesopotamian Mithra moral mortuary Muḥammad namely nature and destiny Nilsson Numen Ohrmazd Oldenberg original Osiris Palaeolithic passage Paul philosophy post-mortem primitive Pyramid Texts Reallexikon regarded Religion represented resurrection Rig-Veda rites ritual S. G. F. Brandon seems significance Söderblom soteriology soul Speleers suggests Sumerian surely thou tion tomb tradition trans Upanisad Vedic Weltanschauung Widengren Yahweh Yahwist Yasna Zaehner Zarathustra Zeus Zoroastre Zurvan