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 bookWhat 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 668). 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...

Binding: Paperback;152 pages; Publisher: Longleaf - Univ of Notre Dame du Lac; Classification: HRC; Weight: 324 g; Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 12

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