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The Last Testament
Don Cupitt
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Description for The Last Testament
Paperback. Considers the traditional Christian ideas of the hereafter against modern beliefs, arguing that we need not the New Testament message but a Last Testament for the Last World that we live in. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 214 x 12. Weight in Grams: 182.
Do you envy the suicide bombers their firm faith in life after death? Probably not: you think they are deluded. People in the west have quite recently lost all their old ideas about a Better World Hereafter. We now accept that we are already in the Last World, the world with no further reality beyond it, and that we'd better live our life to the full while we have it. If so, then what happens to the traditional problem of Christian origins? Jesus preached the arrival of the Last World, and urged us to begin a ... Read more
Do you envy the suicide bombers their firm faith in life after death? Probably not: you think they are deluded. People in the west have quite recently lost all their old ideas about a Better World Hereafter. We now accept that we are already in the Last World, the world with no further reality beyond it, and that we'd better live our life to the full while we have it. If so, then what happens to the traditional problem of Christian origins? Jesus preached the arrival of the Last World, and urged us to begin a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
SCM Press
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780334046226
SKU
V9780334046226
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About Don Cupitt
Don Cupitt is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
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