ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the Christian and Hindu views of the ultimate end or final destiny of man in order that we may estimate their value as systems of religious morality. It deals with the consideration of the Christian and Hindu views of the nature and status of man and how and why of creation itself, for man only occupies a place in the created universe, and his nature and capacities can be explained only in the context of creation. If man is only a creature and is embodied like the rest of the creatures, as surely he is, and if he is also immortal, as Christian theology insists, then it follows that immortality can belong only to his soul, for it surely cannot be his body’s. Hindu metaphysics has worked out in much more elaborate detail the nature and composition of man than perhaps Christian theology has.
