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Understanding Prayer for the Dead: Its Foundation in History and Logic - Couverture souple

Gould, James B.

 
9781620329887: Understanding Prayer for the Dead: Its Foundation in History and Logic
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1620329883 ISBN 13 : 9781620329887
Editeur : Cascade Books, 2016

Synopsis

Throughout history Christians have prayed for the dead--both for continual growth of the faithful and for their advancement from purgatory, though not for the deliverance of the unsaved from hell. This book defends all three kinds of prayer. It challenges Protestants, who seldom pray for the dead, to begin doing so--and Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox, who pray only for the Christian dead, to include the unsaved as well. James Gould addresses the biblical credentials of prayer for the dead and provides a historical overview of such prayers from ancient Christianity to the current practice of the three main branches of the church. He also discusses the logical assumptions prayer for the dead requires--that prayer is effective, that the dead are conscious, and that the afterlife involves change--and lays out a theological framework for such prayers. Prayer for the departed raises the most basic of theological questions, matters that go to the center of God's purpose in creating spiritual beings and redeeming sinful humankind. The argument, while revisionary in some respects, is orthodox, ecumenical, and integrative, engaging a range of academic disciplines so as to be biblically accurate, historically informed, and philosophically reasoned.

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À propos des auteurs

James B. Gould teaches in the Department of Philosophy at McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, Illinois, and serves on the ethics committees of several healthcare organizations.

Jerry L. Walls is Scholar in Residence and Professor of Philosophy at Houston Baptist University. Among his books is a trilogy on the afterlife and, more recently, a popular synthesis of the trilogy entitled Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory: Rethinking the Things that Matter Most. He is also the co-author (with Joseph R. Dongell) of Why I Am Not a Calvinist.

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Éditeur
Cascade Books
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1620329883
ISBN 13 
9781620329887
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
258
Coordonnées du fabricant
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