Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: mostly unhelpful, full of contradictions

This books gets 2 stars rather than 1 since it does provide some summarization of the various eastern and western views regarding death and eternal life.The author's own viewpoint is poorly argued. For example, Hick suggests that the traditional Christian doctrine of the immortality of the soul is untenable due to the emergence of the scientific mind. Hick suggests that anything which cannot be demonstrated as being in accordance with empirical science should be discarded. However, Hick then goes on to say that ESP, clairavoyance (sp?), and other psychic nad paranormal phenomena should be counted as reliable evidence for the existence of life after death (I wonder what empirical scientists would say about this). The author then turns to the eastern religions and panentheism to provide a picture of what eternal life may be like (but without any convincing arguments). On the whole, I think that this book is a waste of time.