EAN: 9783110748185

THE CONCEPT OF SOUL IN JUDAISM CHRISTIANITY AND...

This volume of the series Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses investigates the roots of
the concept of soul in Judaism  Christianity and Islam. The human soul fascinates not only
believers in the three monotheistic faiths. Believing in an immortal entitiy  surpassing body 
materia and their temporality and thus seeming to be closer to the creator that the mere body
was and remains to be a vividly discussed theme in theological and practical debates. Even our
secular  postreligious environment is unable to disengage from the key concept of the soul.
Numerous proverbs  undefined concepts and hopes prove this fact. Asking for the soul means
asking fundamental questions like life after death and therefor asking for one of the most
fundamental and uniting hopes of human beings  be they secular or religious. The volume
presents the concept of soul in its different aspects as anchored in the traditions of Judaism
Christianity and Islam. It unfolds commonalities and differences between the three monotheistic
religions as well as the manifold discourses about peace within these three traditions. The
book offers fundamental knowledge about the specific understanding of the soul in each one of
these traditions  their interdependencies and their relationship to secular world views.

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