Eternal consciousness / / John S. Dunne

• Autore: Dunne John S. <1929->
• Pubblicazione: Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (153 p.)
• Disciplina: 236/.21
• Soggetto topico: Immortality - Christianity; Future life - Christianity; Spirituality
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: "We can know more than we can tell" -- Telling the story -- Knowing the relationship -- Is matter a dimension? -- Does the brain situate the mind? -- Does the body situate the soul? -- Real presences -- Presence of others -- Presence to self -- Presence of god -- Words and music -- Theme: the verbal inside of music -- Inscape: the musical inside of words -- Story and song -- "Where do you come from?" -- "Where are you going?" -- Eternal consciousness -- Song cycle -- Note on mind and matter.
• Sommario/riassunto: In his new book, John S. Dunne asks: "So what is eternal consciousness? It is, I take it, consciousness of the eternal in us. If time is 'a changing image of eternity, ' as Plato says, the changing image of the human being is like The Voyage of Life, four paintings by Thomas Cole, showing childhood, youth, adulthood, and age. The eternal in us is the person going through these phases. It is the vertical dimension of the life, as in the title scene of War and Peace where Prince Andre lay on the battlefield looking up into the peaceful sky, perceiving peace in the midst of war. If the horizontal dimension is time and the vertical dimension is eternity, then eternal consciousness is awareness of the vertical dimension. What is more, the vertical dimension carries through the horizontal, as the person walks through life upright instead of being dragged through in 'quiet desperation.' Willingness and hope, accordingly, is willingness to walk through upright with hope in the face of death and darkness." -from the book What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? Dunne explores these questions in his characteristic hermeneutic method, finding the answer in "the words of eternal life" (John 6: 68). It is the life of the spirit that is the eternal in us, the inner life of knowing and loving, the life of hope and peace and friendship and intelligence. "If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, " Kierkegaard says, "what then would life be but despair?" John Dunne adds, if there is eternal consciousness in us, on the other hand, there is hope. To readers of John Dunne's books, Eternal Consciousness will be the latest installment chronicling his spiritual journey; to readers new to Dunne's oeuvre, it will be a lively introduction to the distinctive voice and thought of an inspiring author.
• Titolo autorizzato: Eternal consciousness
• ISBN: 9780268077761; 0268077762
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910955685403321
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