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• Immortality — • By immortality is ordinarily understood the doctrine that the human soul will survive death, continuing in the possession of an endless conscious existence Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Immortality     Immortality …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Immortality in fiction — Immortality is a popular subject in fiction, as it explores humanity s deep seated fears and comprehension of its own mortality. Immortal beings and species abound in fiction, especially fantasy fiction, and the meaning of immortal tends to… …   Wikipedia

• immortality — /im awr tal i tee/, n. 1. immortal condition or quality; unending life. 2. enduring fame. [1300 50; ME immortalite < L immortalitas. See IMMORTAL, ITY] * * * ▪ philosophy and religion       in philosophy and religion, the continuity of human… …   Universalium

• immortality — Unending life, continuing after death. 1. The OT. There are several beliefs about it in the OT, and the earliest forms of future hope were for the nation s survival rather than for the individual. The focus of God s enduring covenant was on the… …   Dictionary of the Bible

• IMMORTALITY —    the doctrine of the continued existence of the soul of each individual after death, a doctrine the belief of which is, in one form or another, common to most religious systems; even to those which contemplate absorption in the Deity as the… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

• SOUL, IMMORTALITY OF — In the Bible Unlike the gods of Mesopotamia and Canaan, e.g., Apsu, Tiamat, Baal, and Mot, who, while they could not die a natural death, could incur a violent one, the God of Israel is the living God (Hos. 2:1; Ps. 18:47). His lordship extends… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism