The Analytics Of A Belief In A Future Life

Author : L. P. Gratacap
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ISBN 13 : 9781330838006
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Analytics of a Belief in a Future Life (Classic Reprint) written by L. P. Gratacap and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Analytics of a Belief in a Future Life Some people are much tormented by their fluctuating anticipations of a future life, many are at once curious and sceptical about it, and others, leaning upon generally received opinions, and, above all, Christian teaching, are constantly startled, in their reviews of their own ideas, to find both the belief in a future life and the ground of revelation upon which it rested seriously disturbed. A large number probably accept it, act on their acceptance, and approach death with mingled feelings of amazement, alarm, and hope. To most of the individuals of these groups the following chapters may prove of interest. What can be said about this question has, we think, never been gathered into a single aggregate of statements or in a line of consecutive suggestions, and the scientific postulates (always indispensable in an argument) have not been fairly, or at any rate exhaustively, examined in regard to it. They have not been fairly examined by Christian teachers because they offer very slender support, in the way of proof, to this central article of Christian creeds, while they have suffered from a mutilated presentation or a half-collapsed and senile appreciation of their force as establishing a reasonable basis for hope. Their relation to Revelation in this matter, the positive and unavoidable necessity to-day of their study before rational inquirers will even turn to Revelation for an expression of any kind, has not been always understood, even by the average Agnostic or the average Believer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.