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註釋Men in the West have abandoned the traditional hopes of the Christian faith and found nothing to replace them except an all-pervading anxiety. This is especially true of the promise of life after death. This book begins by examining that anxiety as it has been expressed by leading writers of the present day such as Gide, Camus and, at a popular level, Françoise Sagan and by philosophers such as Heidegger, Jaspers and, in the last century, Kierkegaard. The Marxist view is also discussed and analyzed. The book continues with a survey of what men have believed about life after death from the ochre-smeared burials of Neanderthal Man through the developed religious systems of Ancient Egypt, Babylon, Greece and Rome to Islam and the great Oriental religions. An examination of the widely differing views of Protestant theologians is followed by a detailed account of specifically Christian beliefs about the Kingdom of Heaven, resurrection, general and particular judgments, hell, purgatory and limbo and the authority for these.