The Doctrine of Immortality in the Early Church

Do you have an immortal soul that is automatically destined to live forever somewhere, or is "ashes to ashes and dust to dust" your final destination if God doesn't raise you from the dead and grant you immortality? You may not realize that Christians have been debating this question for almost 2,000 years. How did this debate start? What positions were held by the first few generations of believers? What can we learn about immortality from those who wrote between the time of the Apostle John and the Council of Nicea? This book is an unbiased survey of the writings of the Early Church on what is literally a life-and-death matter.