Why heaven doesn't make earth absolutely meaningless, just relatively
In this article, I seek charitably to develop an argument suggested by Thaddeus Metz. This is an argument against the view that it is consistent to hold that, while our lives may have some meaningfulness even if there is no heavenly afterlife awaiting us, if there is such an afterlife, they are even...
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2020
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Religious studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 57, Issue: 4, Pages: 732-751 |
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Metz, Thaddeus
/ Meaning of life
/ Theism
/ Atheism
/ Hereafter
/ Universalism
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