Article: Scientists and religion.
The Humanist;  July 1, 1997 ;     538 words ......rather stable while belief in personal immortality has declined considerably and the desire for personal immortality even more. The authors recognized...personal, prayer-answering God, personal immortality, and, for those who do not...

Article: Høffding, Harald
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church;      62 words ......sufficient theoretical grounds for applying the notions ‘cause’ or ‘personality’ to the Absolute or for affirming (or denying) belief in personal immortality. He described his position as ‘critical monism’.

Article: Bradley, Francis Herbert
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church;      90 words ......conceived of as reality. The only true reality is to be found in an all-inclusive experience, the Absolute, wherein all contradictions, including the gulf between subject and object, are transcended. Theism and personal immortality are rejected.

Article: ‘Tithonus’
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature;      57 words ......but composed in 1833. Tithonus is granted perpetual life but not perpetual youth by Aurora, and in a dramatic monologue he longs for death; like In Memoriam , the poem reflects Tennyson's anxiety about the nature of personal immortality.

Article: Cārvāka
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions;      112 words ......change, in all appearance, so that the self is nothing more than the sum of its parts. Since there cannot be a future personal immortality, the only wise course is to grasp life now—but with the moral control that a good action is more likely to produce...

Article: Voltaire
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church;      123 words ......intolerance. He attacked atheism not, as is sometimes maintained, because he regarded belief in the existence of God and personal immortality as necessary simply for the government of the masses, but out of a pragmatic conviction that without these beliefs human...

Article: Souls, bodies and embryos: what has Athens to do with Jerusalem?
Quadrant;  September 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......fundamentally a soul rather than a body, could understand personal immortality as the survival of the non-material side of man, but...regarded by Christians as an attenuated understanding of personal immortality. Christians may agree with Plato that the soul survives...

Article: Averroism
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church;      192 words ......that only one intellect exists for the whole human race, in which every individual participates, to the exclusion of personal immortality. The theories of Averroes became known in Catholic Europe c. 1230, but they were not immediately understood. In 1256...

Article: A chance and fateful meeting: author examines an epochal encounter between two philosophers.(The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World)(Book review)
National Catholic Reporter;  July 14, 2006 ;     700+ words ......community at age 24 for his heretical beliefs about the nature of God, the origins of the Bible and his rejection of personal immortality. Self-assured, even arrogant in his beliefs, he moved to The Hague, where, cloaked in anonymity, he published his Tractatus...

Article: Averroës
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      235 words ......his metaphysics as Avempace, to whom he was certainly indebted for his ideas on the intellect. Averroist doctrines on personal immortality and the eternity of matter were condemned by the Roman Catholic Church. St. Thomas Aquinas was respectful of Averroës...

Article: Raven, The
The Oxford Companion to American Literature;      213 words ......the death of a beautiful woman (in this case “Lenore”), the distinctive theme of despair at the denial of personal immortality, and the sonorous sound of the o and r in the refrain itself. A weary student is visited in his room, one stormy midnight...

Article: Siger of Brabant
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church;      186 words ......question were the eternity of the world and the unity of the intellect in the human race, which involved the denial of personal immortality and of rewards and punishments in a future life. Critics accused him of holding that some tenets might be true in theology...

Article: theosophy
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church;      212 words ......essence of everything, physical and spiritual, is one life. Theosophical philosophy denies the existence of a personal God, personal immortality, and the validity of the Christian revelation. The Theosophical Society was founded in New York in 1875 by Mme H. P...

Article: Chapter 1: Introduction
Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained;      700+ words ......expressions of desire for a future life was written thousands of years ago by an Egyptian scribe for whom the expectation of personal immortality was connected with the belief that his body would avoid the horrors of disintegration if it were to be mummified. This...