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The Christian hope: a study in the doctrine of immortality.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, William Adams, 1865-1943.
- Series:
- Studies in theology.
- Studies in theology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Immortality.
- Penn Provenance:
- Brown, Arthur (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Brown, Mrs. Arthur (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 6 preliminary leaves, ix unnumbered pages-xi, 216 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : C. Scribner's Sons, 1912.
- Contents:
- 1. Introductory
- the reason for telling the story
- 2. The nature of the Christian hope
- the place of hope in religion
- the permanent content of the Christian hope
- 3. Historical early conceptions of the future life
- life in an underworld without moral distinctions
- resurrection
- judgment after death
- 4. The rise of the doctrine of immortality in India and Greece
- immortality in Greece
- immortality in India
- 5. The preparation in Israel for the Christian hope
- the early conception of Sheol
- the messianic hope
- Intimations of immortality
- the doctrine of the resurrection
- the moralization of Sheol
- 6. The contribution of Jesus to the Christian hope
- the method of Jesus
- the gospel of the kingdom
- Jesus' view of immortality
- 7. The effects of the resurrection upon the Christian hope
- the fact of the resurrection
- the meaning of the resurrection
- the evidence of the resurrection- the consequences of the resurrection
- 8. The chief historic forms of the Christian hope
- premillenarianism
- purgatory
- instant sanctification at death
- 9. Proposed substitutes for the Christian hope
- the decline of faith in personal immortality
- social immortality
- the immortality of influence
- the immortality of value
- 10. The recovery of faith in immortality
- the bearing of physical science upon the hope of immortality
- the argument from evolution: conditional immortality
- the spiritistic hypothesis
- the argument from value: universalism
- 11. Constructive
- the definition of the Christian hope
- individual and social aspects of the Christian hope
- 12. The grounds of the Christian hope
- the historical argument
- the philosophical argument
- the ethical argument
- the religious argument
- 13. The value of the Christian hope
- the value for the individual
- the value for society
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has printed poem "Evensong" attached to front pastedown.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has ms. inscription on front flyleaf: "Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Brown With affectionate regards from M.E.B.".
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has booksellers ticket on back pastedown: "Brentano's Booksellers & Stationers New York".
- Other Format:
- Online version: Brown, William Adams, 1865-1943. Christian hope.
- OCLC:
- 2782763
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