Life After Death - Softcover

Harpur, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0771039387 ISBN 13: 9780771039386

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, 1996

Synopsis

Is there life after death?

This question has puzzled humankind from time immemorial. For thousands of years religions the world over have taught that life does not end at death. Ancient Egyptians used to bury boats with their dead for transport to a new life. Medieval Christendom was rife with graphic, “eye-witness” descriptions of heaven and hell. In the West today, many people claim to have seen or heard from the dead; others have “remembered” past lives while under hypnosis. Still other have experienced “death” and have returned with remarkably similar stories to tell. Yet sceptics, agnostics, and atheists have challenged or rejected the notion of an afterlife, arguing that there is no proof of it whatsoever. Who is right?

In Life After Death, Tom Harpur, religious scholar, journalist, and best-selling author, takes a fresh and wide-ranging look at the question. He searches with an open mind, not for proof, but for evidence, within science, psychology, the Bible, the tenets of world religions, and the extraordinary experiences of ordinary people. And the evidence he meticulously assembles points unfalteringly towards one, logical conclusion: “Death is very much like birth. It is the traumatic but essential passage into a new phase of life.”

Life After Death is an extensively researched and eloquently reasoned investigation, which radiates the author’s intelligence and scholarship. Harpur’s powerful conclusions will challenge believers and sceptics alike. One thing is certain – his message will inspire all readers to reassess the meaning of life.
From the Hardcover edition.

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About the Author

A former Rhodes scholar and professor of New Testament studies at Wycliffe College, Toronto, Tom Harpur is also an Anglican priest. He resigned from parish work in 1979 to write full-time in the mass media, in the process extending his “parish” to the whole of Canada. His work in newspapers, television, and his books, notably For Christ’s Sake and Life After Death, have consolidated his reputation as one of Canada’s pre-eminent religious voices and as a sound spiritual guide for modern times.

Review

“This book helps us to take the spiritual pulse of the times....I admire the clear-headed honesty that seldom seems to desert Harpur.”
– Montreal Gazette

“A well-written and thought-provoking book, intensely interesting and, in places, challenging.”
–Anglican Journal

“Stimulating and readable....A judicious and many-sided account of a subject of unending concern. It should find many readers.”
–Canadian Jewish News

“Harpur is as lucid a guide to the hereafter as we are going to get in the here and now.”
–Globe and Mail
From the Hardcover edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0771039387
• ISBN 13: 9780771039386
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 368