Book
Eternal life : a new vision : beyond religion, beyond theism, beyond heaven and hell
Edition
1st ed.
Publication Information
New York : Harper One, c2009.
Physical Description
xx, 268 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary
A controversial bishop continues to challenge traditional Christian theology with his thoughts on one of the most profound issues of all: God and life after death.
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.