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Death; meaning and mortality in Christian thought and contemporary culture, [by] Milton McC. Gatch

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Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 188-209)

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Death; meaning and mortality in Christian thought and contemporary culture

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[by] Milton McC. Gatch

I. Death in the Twentieth Century -- II. Immortality and resurrection: a sampling of the intellectual traditions -- A. The Greek traditions -- 1. Thucydides and civic immortality -- 2. Plato and personal immortality -- B. The biblical tradition -- 1. The Old Testament -- 2. The New Testament -- C. The Greek Patristic tradition -- 1. Irenaeus of Lyons -- 2. Origen -- 3. Gregory of Nyssa -- D. The Latin Patristic tradition -- 1. Tertullian -- 2. Augustine of Hippo -- 3. Gregory the Great -- E. The early medieval tradition -- 1. The phoenix -- 2. Soul and body -- 3. Aelfric of Eynsham -- F. The traditions of the High Middle Ages -- 1. Thomas Aquinas -- 2. Dante Alighieri -- 3. William Langland -- G. The sixteenth-century tradition -- 1. Martin Luther -- 2. John Calvin -- 3. Hamlet's ghost and the English ReformationIII. The significance of death in the early Christian and medieval traditions -- A. Immortality and resurrection in the Christian intellectual tradition -- B. The tradition and problems of interpretation -- 1. Metaphysics, cosmology, and death: the problem of world-picture -- 2. Dreams and visions of the afterlife: the problem of literary criticism -- 3. Christianity and the representation of reality: the figural approach -- C. Life and death in Christian thought -- IV. Toward a twentieth-century acceptance of mortality -- A. Death in the modern period -- 1. Modern man as the lonely perceiver -- 2. Death in the modern novel -- B. Involvement and mortality in the contemporary world