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Article: Eternal life? Life after death as a medical, philosophical, and theological problem.
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- National Review
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- July 27, 1984
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IT HAS BEEN four years now since Pope John Paul II saw to the revocation of Hans Kung's license to teach as an official Catholic theologian. At the time, the move afforded brief satisfaction to the orthodox, who greeted it as a sadly needed certification of the obvious. But it has also provided Kung with another of the self-dramatizing metaphors that have fueled his immense popularity. Lately he has taken to depicting himself as a renegade sleuth, a seeker after transcendental clues, always several steps ahead of the hidebound officials who approve only well-worn investigative paths. Still, anyone hoping for a clear-cut case had better stick with the cops--at least if ...