A Brief History of Heaven.

A Brief History of Heaven.

The concept of heaven has had an enormous impact on popular culture in the west, both religious and secular. So where does the idea come from? How did it develop? And how has it shaped western culture? This engaging and highly accessible book by one of today's best-known Christian writers explo...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2003.
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Heaven.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • 1 The City: The New Jerusalem
  • Images and the Christian Faith
  • The City of Jerusalem in the Old Testament
  • The City of Jerusalem in the New Testament
  • Augustine of Hippo on the Two Cities
  • The Heavenly City and Medieval Spirituality
  • Pearl and the New Jerusalem
  • John Bunyan's Heavenly City
  • The Shape of the Heavenly Body
  • 2 The Garden: Heaven as Paradise
  • The Quest for the Garden of Eden
  • Paradise in the Bible
  • Early Christian Views of Paradise
  • The Millennium as Paradise
  • Medieval Visions of Paradise
  • Dante's Divine Comedy
  • Paradise and the Enclosed Garden
  • Heaven as the Restoration of Eden
  • 3 Opening the Gates of Heaven: Atonement and Paradise
  • Christ the Victor
  • Christ the Hero
  • Christ the Harrower of Hell
  • Christ the Redeemer: Atonement as Satisfaction
  • Christ the Lover: Atonement and the Enkindling of Love
  • The Institutionalization of Atonement: The Church as the Gateway to Heaven
  • The Privatization of Atonement: Personal Faith as the Gateway to Heaven
  • 4 The Signposting of Heaven: Signals of Transcendence
  • Nature as an Anticipation of Heaven
  • The Ascent of Love and the Intimation of Heaven
  • Experience and the Sense of Heaven: Herbert and Traherne
  • Nature as a Signpost of Heaven: Romanticism and Transcendentalism
  • Longing for Heaven: C. S. Lewis
  • 5 The Consolation of Heaven
  • Reunion with Family in Heaven in Early Roman Christianity
  • Heaven as an Encounter with God
  • Heaven as a Dream: Feuerbach, Marx, and Freud
  • Heaven as an Encounter with Loved Ones
  • African American Spirituals
  • 6 Journey's End: Heaven as the Goal of the Christian Life
  • The Concept of Spirituality
  • The Hope of Heaven: Theological Foundations
  • The Appeal to Worship: Heaven on Earth
  • Feasting in the Kingdom
  • Journeying to the Promised Land
  • Returning to the Homeland from Exile
  • Seeing God Face to Face
  • Works Consulted
  • Index

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