James Kellenberger is emeritus Professor of Philosophy, at California State University, USA. His previous books include God-Relationships With and Without God, Relationship Morality, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, and, most recently, Dying to Self and Detachment.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Eternal and the Everlasting
2. Things that are Eternal
3. Eternal Life
4. Eternal Life in this Life
5. Interior Modes of Eternal Life
6. Active Modes of Eternal Life
7. Perigeal Modes of Eternal Life and Issues
8. Life After Death and Eternal Life
Bibliography
Index

The subject of this book is the relationship and the difference between the temporal everlasting and the atemporal eternal. This book treats the difference between a temporal postmortem life and eternal life. It identifies the conceptual tension in the religious idea of eternal life and offers a resolution of that tension.