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Immortality: Experience and Symbol*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2011

Eric Voegelin
Affiliation:
Munich University, Germany

Extract

Immortality is one of the language symbols engendered by a class of experiences to which we refer as the varieties of religious experience. This term is perhaps no longer the technically best one but it has the advantage of a great precedent, especially here at Harvard. Hence, its use will be convenient to secure, I hope, a common and immediate understanding about the subject-matter of inquiry.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1967

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References

* The Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality, delivered at Harvard Divinity School on January 14, 1965.