Electronic Resource
Cambridge
:
Cambridge University Press
Religious studies
31 (1995), S. 447-462
ISSN:
0034-4125
Source:
Cambridge Journals Digital Archives
Topics:
Theology and Religious Studies
Notes:
Many analyses of belief in the soul ignore the soul in the words. Dislocations of concepts occur when words are divorced from their normal implications. The ‘soul’ is sometimes the dislocated utterer of such words. Pictures, including pictures of the soul leaving the body, may mislead us by suggesting applications which they, in fact, do not have. But pictures of the soul may enter people's lives as desires for a temporal eternity. Contrasting conceptions of immortality and eternal life depend on a willingness to say farewell to life. Atheistic denials of temporal eternities, do not appreciate these other possibilities.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0034412500023866
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