Immortality and the Modern Mind

By: Lake, Kirsopp

It was fitting that Professor Lake, whose early fame rested largely on his book on The Resurrection of Christ, should be asked to deliver the Ingersoll Lecture on the Immortality of Man. On this subject Professor Lake's position is hardly distinguishable from pantheism. He insists that the modern tendency to emphasize the resurrection of the "body" (in a sense almost equal to "personality") rather than of the "flesh" is not an explanation but a contradiction of the historic Christian creed. He fully accepts the arguments of those who make the survival of consciousness dependent on the survival of the physical body, a survival which obviously does not take place. The author heartily believes in the permanence of the immaterial, but of thought rather than of thinking, of life rather than of living, of the community rather than of the individual. If we say we do not find much comfort in this, Professor Lake apparently would reply that he does not feel any particular need of comfort.--Homiletic Review, Volume 84

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1672814340
• ISBN13: 9781672814348
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"