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What do the great world religions say about the soul and its ultimate destiny? This book, the third in Keith Wards magisterial tetralogy on comparative religion, presents the beliefs of six major traditions about human nature, the way to immortality, and the end of the world. It offers a major philosophical analysis of beliefs in reincarnation and the resurrection of the body. Finally it constructs a Christian interpretation, in the light of scientific knowledge and a global religious worldview.
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Religion and human nature / Keith Ward Includes index. I. Man (Theology) I. Title. BL256.W371998291.2'2dc2198-3194 ISBN 0-19-826961-7 ISBN 0-19-826965-X
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Page iii
Acknowledgements
Among the many people I have consulted in the writing of this book, I am very grateful, in particular, to Saunaka Rishi Das, of Iskcon, to Ram Prasad, who at the time was Gordon Milburn Research Fellow at Trinity College, Oxford, to Rabbi Norman Solomon, Hebrew Centre Lecturer in Judaism at Oxford, to Zaki Badawi, Principal of the Muslim College in London, and to Paul Williams, Reader in Indo-Tibetan Studies at Bristol University.
Needless to say, none of them bear any responsibility for the views expressed in the book, but talking to them has helped me to come to what I hope is a clearer and fairer understanding of the traditions to which they belong.
K.W.
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Contents
1. Introduction
1
2. Non-Dualism (Advaita Vedanta)
10
3. The Search for the Self (Vaishnava Hinduism)
36
4. The Doctrine of Rebirth
51
5. Buddhism and the Self
76
6. Evolutionary Naturalism
113
7. The Embodied Soul
134
8. Original Sin
159
9. The Doctrine of Atonement
186
10. Salvation by Grace
204
11. The World to Come
229
12. Human Destiny in Judaism and Islam
255
13. Human Destiny in Christianity
271
14. The Ultimate End of All Things
296
15. Conclusion
324
Author Index
329
Subject Index
331
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1 Introduction
There exists a wide range of views about human nature, about what human beings essentially are, and what their proper relationship is to other beings and to the wider universe in which they exist. The religious traditions of the world, which develop a number of communal interpretations of the insights of their originating prophets or teachers, enshrine distinctive views of human nature and destiny.
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