The Mystery of Death
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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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
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
1. The Ending of our State of Pilgrimage
2. The Place of our fully Personal Encounter with Christ
3. The Universality of the Redemption
6. Christological Basis for the Hypothesis of a Final Decision
7. Summary of the Theological Discussion
Boros, Teilhard, and The Mystery of Death
AN INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY BY CYNTHIA BOURGEAULT
Somewhere in the mid-1970s, a copy of the book The Mystery of Death by Ladislaus Boros came into my possession. I can’t recall the circumstances, but a $1 price sticker on the inside dust jacket suggests it may have been a yard sale special. However it arrived in my hands, it was certainly one of the great spiritual bargains of my life, for its bold and
