Death and Eternal Life

Hick, John

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“…In an infinite amount of time, whether one reaches some state of mind or being sooner or later has no temporal meaning within an eternal context. As John Hick (1976) argued, in a world where there is no death, people attempting suicide by jumping might float to the ground, the knives of murderers might turn to putty, and reasons for hygiene and nourish ment disappear. Such a state might be theoretically imaginable, but it would have devastating consequences not only for the consistency of natural laws, but for incentives for moral and spiritual growth.…”

Section: Deathlessness and Moral Improvementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Over my dead body there is an ideal utopia: Comments on Kellehear's paper

Becker

1991

J Near-Death Stud

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Allan Kellehear's near-death experiencers (NDErs) report per ceiving a utopia beyond death. I examine the logical implications and philo sophical possibilities of such a realm, and come to three conclusions. First, the realms described by NDErs, if taken at face value, are far from utopian, rather resembling travelers' romances with exotic lands. Second, any truly utopian postmortem society is so far removed from our present world as to be morally irrelevant to our own. And third, only an ideational postmortem utopia, of the sort exemplified by Pure Land Buddhist theology, can avoid both the non-uto pian nature of NDErs' descriptions and the irrelevance of postmortem utopias.Allan Kellehear is becoming recognized as a highly creative and enterprising young sociologist who tackles topics beyond the province of old-guard sociology. His articles on near-death experiences (NDEs) in China

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Section: Deathlessness and Moral Improvementmentioning

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Over my dead body there is an ideal utopia: Comments on Kellehear's paper

Becker

1991

J Near-Death Stud

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“…First, a study of the beliefs of the afterlife might not necessarily indicate beliefs about the first five minutes of after-death experience. Indeed, theologian John Hick (1976) rightly identified eschatology as the doctrine of last things or of the ultimate state to which we are destined. He used the term par eschatology to designate the doctrine of next-to-last things or the "human future between the present life and Man's ultimate state" (Hick 1976, p. 22).…”

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Five minutes after death: A study of beliefs and expectations

Kellehear

Irwin

1990

J Near-Death Stud

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This paper examines the beliefs and expectations that a sample of 508 people hold about the first five minutes after death. A substantial minority believed that they will experience the main elements of the near death experience (NDE). In general these elements were cited more frequently than were Biblical images. Six percent of the sample said that postmortem survival for them will be a negative and disturbing experience. We discuss these results in terms of their methodological implications for other survey work and their theoretical contribution toward our understanding of negative NDEs.What, if anything, do people believe about experiences associated with the first five minutes after their own death? This paper examines the nature of popular beliefs and expectations about the initial mo ments of postmortem existence. Studying beliefs about personal sur vival of death is relevant to near-death research for two reasons.First, these beliefs may reflect aspects of socialization and social conditioning, which in turn may influence to some extent the content and nature of the near-death experience (NDE). For example, Calvin Schorer

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“…John Hick and Alan Olding have seriously debated whether two spatially unrelated dimensions could be temporally re lated (Hick, 1976). Austin Farrer has suggested that "heaven can be as dimensional as it likes without ever getting pulled into our spatial field, or having any possible contact with us of any physical kind."…”

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Extrasensory perception, near-death experiences, and the limits of scientific knowledge

Becker

1990

J Near-Death Stud

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Death and Eternal Life

Cited by 26 publications

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Over my dead body there is an ideal utopia: Comments on Kellehear's paper

Over my dead body there is an ideal utopia: Comments on Kellehear's paper

Five minutes after death: A study of beliefs and expectations

Extrasensory perception, near-death experiences, and the limits of scientific knowledge

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