Heaven, hell, and the afterlife : eternity in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam / J. Harold Ellens, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ellens, J. Harold, 1932- editor.

Series:

Psychology, religion, and spirituality

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Future life.

Eternity.

Physical Description:

3 volumes ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara : Praeger, 2013.

Contents:

v. 1. End time and afterlife in Judaism

Afterlife and underworld in the Bible / J. Harold Ellens

End time and afterlife in Judaism : two readings of the vision of the end of days / Yitzhak (Itzik) Peleg

Caught in the snare of Sheʼol, but dew gives life to dust / Andries Gideon Van Aarde

The afterlife in the Septuagint / Leonard Greenspoon

Enochic Judaism and the Messiah of the early church : adapted images of heaven, hell, and afterlife / James A. Waddell

Heaven and hell, angels and demons : the other side of the Second Temple Period / Donald R. Vance

Heaven, hell, and afterlife in the Dead Sea Scrolls and their influences in the New Testament / J. Harold Ellens

The afterlife in Philo and Josephus / Jason von Ehrenkrook

Death and future life : a Jewish meditation / Theodore A. Perry

Jewish Christian eschatology / Jennifer M. Rosner

Jesus and the afterlife : glimpses of Jewish traditions in the teachings of Jesus / Gregory C. Jenks

Near-death experiences and transcendence in Judaism / B. Les Lancaster, Harris Friedman, Stanley Krippner, Cheryl Fracasso

From spiritual care to religious violence : the liabilities of the afterlife / Joseph M. Kramp

Hell on earth : corporeal existence as the ultimate punishment of the wicked in Philo of Alexandria and the Wisdom of Solomon / Jason M. Zurawski

v. 2. End time and afterlife in Christianity

Heaven, hell, and the text of the New Testament / Peter R. Rodgers

Eternal life in John's gospel : it's playing now / Wayne G. Rollins

The tomb cult of the early Jesus-followers in Jerusalem / Andries Gideon Van Aarde

When heaven gives you hell : salvation of the soul in the gnostic Christian Gospel of Philip / Bas van Os

Shifting views of heaven, hell, and the afterlife in the second century CE / Deborah Forger

Heaven, hell, and afterlife in the Christian creeds / J. Harold Ellens

Hades, hell, and sheol : the reception history of the King James Version in American fundamentalism / Philip Samuel Browning Helsel

The history of the King James Bible as a source and response to ecumenical anxiety / Elliot Berger

Re-membering the body of Christ : historical origins and psychological implications of the doctrine of the communion of saints / Philip Samuel Browning Helsel

Signposts for heaven : C.S. Lewis, Sehnsucht, and the fulfillment of joy / Kevin J. Eames

The afterlife in fundamentalism / F. Morgan Roberts

Humanistic Christian ideations of heaven and hell / Jack Hanford

Popular notions of afterlife in the Christian community / Virginia Ingram

Eternity in the age of Aquarius : origins and concepts of heaven and hell in the New Age movement / Jeffrey Spence

Eschatology in African Christian theology / Xolani Sakuba

Near-death experiences from a Christian vantage point / Cheryl Fracasso, Harris Friedman, Stanley Krippner

Heaven, hell and paradise : consciousness research and eschatological mythology / Stanislav Grof

Do heaven and hell matter? How a Christian perspective on heaven and hell shapes our psychology / Steven A. Rogers

v. 3. End time and afterlife in Islamic, Buddhist, and indigenous cultures

Ontological expansion of life and its implications : Islam / Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi

Al-Ghayb wa al-ʼAkhirah : heaven, hell, and eternity in the Qurʼan / Grant R. Shafer

Muslim attitudes toward near-death experiences, death, and the afterlife / Akbar Husain, Sabira Khan, Stanley Krippner, Cheryl Fracasso, Harris Friedman

The underworld in Islam compared with Jewish and Christian traditions / J. Harold Ellens

Ideas of apocalyptic eschatology in Islam / J. Harold Ellens

Philosophers and the afterlife : Maimonides, Avicenna (Ibn Sinna), and Averroes (Ibn Ro/Ushd) : perspectives on the afterlife in medieval Islamic and Jewish philosophy / John T. Greene

Our reach for eternity, now and hereafter, secular and sacred / Richard K. Fenn

Death, afterlife, and ancestors in Africa / Glenna S. Jackson, Jean Ntahoturi, Mbengu David Nyiawung

Meaning and destiny : life and afterlife of the aborigines of Australia / Mary Wittbold

Historic and contemporary American perspectives on aspects of our afterlife / J. Harold Ellens

Global reflections on heaven, hell, and afterlife in the Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, and Western worlds (with a note on Buddhism) / John T. Greene

Excursus commemoration of Alan F. Segal : a critical digest of his life after death : a history of the afterlife in Western religions / J. Harold Ellens.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-148) and index.

ISBN:

1440801835

9781440801839

OCLC:

856652103