The Rise and Fall of the Afterlife: The 1995 Read-Tuckwell Lectures at the University of BristolRoutledge, 2002 - 238 עמודים Belief in the afterlife is still very much alive in Western civilisation, even though the truth of its existence is no longer universally accepted. Surprisingly, however, heaven, hell and the immortal soul were all ideas which arrived relatively late in the ancient world. Originally Greece and Israel - the cultures that gave us Christianity - had only the vaguest ideas of an afterlife. So where did these concepts come from and why did they develop? |