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afterlife | American Dictionary

afterlife
noun[ Cusually sing ]
us/ˈæf·tərˌlɑɪf/pluralafterlivesus/-ˌlɑɪvz/
the life that some people believe begins after death, esp. in heaven

Examples of afterlife

afterlife
The impossibility of human persons beginning to exist more than once yields a bump in the physicalist's road to an afterlife.
On a substance-dualist theory of human persons, there is a clear account of how this survival into an afterlife is possible.
I might note here that the nineteenth-century beliefs of the effluvists have had a long afterlife.
Previously he was able to neutralize the problem of evil, and arrive at a favourable assessment of the probability of theism, without considering an afterlife.
Some discussion of the afterlife, it would seem, must ultimately be entered into.
Yet she believed in an afterlife, as a moving selection of her condolence letters (iii. 194-213) clearly shows.
It is an account of survival into an afterlife.
Most theists hold that there is an afterlife.
Priests preached a rosy afterlife in paradise, while advocating the benefits they could obtain in this life.
Evidence for the afterlife would be at least a small step towards theism.
Yet one very literal meaning of the text's afterlife, starting at the moment of its completion and publication, is its commercial success.
Unlike other cultural biographies, this contains construction, habitation, use and abandonment, resurrection and afterlife.
And accounts of consciousness can impact views on religious experience, the coherence of an afterlife, miracles, divine attributes, the soul, and religious ethics.
So if the purpose of the afterlife is the perfection of every earthly human, then we must posit many resurrection counterparts.
If this is right, then the purpose of the afterlife is the actualization of all the positive potentials of every earthly person.
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