Immortality and the Future: The Christian Doctrine of Eternal Life

by Hugh Mackintosh

Publisher:

Hodder and Stoughton

, 1917

Overview

Immortality and the Future surveys the idea of a future life and the Bible’s teaching on immortality. It is a first guide to those who are studying eschatology and who wish to do so in the full light of history and faith. H.R. Mackintosh divides his study into two parts. The first traces the historical development of the doctrine through different faiths, Judaism, and the teachings of Jesus, the apostles, and the church. The second part is a reconstructive statement of the doctrine in the light of scholarship from various Christian sources.

Key Features

• Surveys the Bible’s teaching on immortality
• Traces eschatology through history
• Examines scholarship on immortality

Contents

• The Historical Development
  • Ethnic Ideas of Death and the Future
  • Eschatology in the Old Testament and Judaism
  • The Eschatology of Jesus
  • Eschatology in the Apostolic Age
  • Eschatology in the Church
• A Reconstructive Statement
  • The Christian Hope
  • Objections on the Threshold
  • The Return of Christ
  • Death and the Sequel
  • Immortality
  • Future Judgment
  • Universal Restoration
  • Conditional Immortality
  • The Life Everlasting

Top Highlights

“the substance of faith is that in Jesus we apprehend His very mind and heart” (Page 232)

“The world to come will be a world full of surprises.” (Page 230)

“an amazing revelation of His glory is still to come of which all we have hitherto learned exhibits only a faint trace.” (Page 233)

“heaven consists in the unhindered possession of God.” (Page 232)

“Hence the prospect of knowing Him face to face, even as we are known, is something new and very great,” (Page 232)

Product Details

• Title: Immortality and the Future: The Christian Doctrine of Eternal Life
• Author: Hugh Mackintosh
• Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
• Print Publication Date: 1917
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Pages: 248
• Era: era:modern
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Future life; Immortality
• Resource ID: LLS:ESCHAMACKINTOSH
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T01:43:01Z

About Hugh Mackintosh

Hugh Ross Mackintosh (1870-1936) was a Scottish theologian, and parish minister. He was born in Paisley, where his father held the Free Church Gaelic charge. He attended Edinburgh University, before proceeding to New College, Edinburgh to study divinity. He also took sessions at Freiburg, Halle and Marburg, where he became a particular friend of Wilhelm Herrmann. His major theological work was his major study addressing the Person of Christ.