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Heaven : a history

Authors:Colleen McDannell, Bernhard Lang

Summary:Includes a substantial new preface on changing views of life after death in the new century, this copiously illustrated book describes the ways in which believers--from biblical authors to present-day religious thinkers--have pictured Heaven, not just in doctrine but also in poetry, art, literature, and popular culture

Print Book, English, 2001

Edition:2nd ed View all formats and editions

Publisher: Yale Nota Bene, New Haven, 2001

Series:

Physical Description:xxv, 411 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

ISBN:

9780300091076, 0300091079

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:47270293

Subjects:

Ciel Aspect religieux Histoire des doctrines

Future life History of doctrines

Heaven History of doctrines

Contents:

The dawn of Heaven

Jesus and the Christian promise

Irenaeus and Augustine on our heavenly bodies

Medieval promises

The pleasures of renaissance paradise

God at the center: Protestant and Catholic reformers

Swedenborg and the emergence of a modern Heaven

Love in the heavenly realm

Eternal motion: progress in the other world

Heaven in contemporary Christianity

Paradise found

Notes:

Previous edition: New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 1988