The Mystery of Death. Ladislaus Boros

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      The Mystery of Death: Awakening to Eternal Life © Copyright 2020 by Monkfish Book Publishing Company. Introduction and Commentary © Copyright 2020 by Cynthia Bourgeault.

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      Paperback ISBN 978-1-948626-15-6

      eBook ISBN 978-1-948626-16-3

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Boros, Ladislaus, 1927-1981, author. | Bourgeault, Cynthia, writer of commentary.

      Title: The mystery of death : awakening to eternal life / Ladislaus Boros, S.J., with introduction and commentary by Cynthia Bourgeault.

      Description: Rhinebeck, New York : Monkfish Book Publishing Company, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2019055190 (print) | LCCN 2019055191 (ebook) | ISBN 9781948626156 (paperback) | ISBN 9781948626163 (ebook)

      Subjects: LCSH: Death--Religious aspects--Christianity. | Death. | Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre. Milieu divin. | Christianity--Philosophy.

      Classification: LCC BT825 .B563 2020 (print) | LCC BT825 (ebook) | DDC 236/.1--dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019055190

      LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019055191

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      Contents

       Boros, Teilhard, and The Mystery of Death: An Introduction and Commentary by Cynthia Bourgeault

       Introduction

       I. THE METHODOLOGICAL POSTULATES FOR AN ANALYSIS OF DEATH

       1. Death as a Metaphysical Process

       2. A Temporal Process in a Non-Temporal Transition

       3. Death a Fundamental Modality of Living, Concrete Existence

       4. The Workings of the Death-Process Revealed by the Transcendental Method

       5. Starting-Point for the Philosophical Analysis of Death

       6. Summary of our Methodological Considerations

       II. THE PHILOSOPHICAL BASIS FOR THE HYPOTHESIS OF A FINAL DECISION

       1. The Presence of Death in the Will

       2. Death as the Fulfilment of Knowing

       3. Integral Perception and Remembrance in Death

       4. Love as a Projection of our Existence into Death

       5. Meeting-Point of the Historical Dialectic of Existence

       6. The Previous Sampling of Death Found in Poetic Experience

       7. Accomplishment and Perfection of the Kenotic Actualization of Existence

       8. Revised Definition of the Whole Concept of the Process of Death

       9. Summary of the Philosophical Demonstration

       III: THEOLOGICAL DISCUSSION

       1. The Ending of our State of Pilgrimage

       2. The Place of our fully Personal Encounter with Christ

       3. The Universality of the Redemption

       4. Problems of Original Sin

       5. The State of Purification

       6. Christological Basis for the Hypothesis of a Final Decision

       7. Summary of the Theological Discussion

       Notes