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Princeton Univ Pr, Date: 1999. Paperback. New. 256 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.75 inches. 1999. Princeton Univ Pr ISBN 0691006849 9780691006840 [GB]

ISBN10: 0691006849, ISBN13: 9780691006840, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Well-known for his historical accounts of Satan and hell, Jeffrey Burton Russell here explores the brighter side of eternity: heaven. Dispensing with the cliché images of goodness that can make even heaven seem unbearable, the author stimulates our imagination with a history of how the joy of paradise has been conceived by writers, philosophers, and artists for whom heaven was an imminent reality. Russell not only explores concepts found among the ancient Jews, Greeks, and Romans as well as early and medieval Christians, but also addresses the intellectual problems heaven poses: how does time 'pass' in eternity is heaven a place or a state who is in and who is not what happens to the body and soul between death and Judgment Day Russell stresses that the best way to approach the logic-defying concept of a place occupying neither space nor time is through poetry and paradox, and through the visions of such mystics as Bernard, Julian of Norwich, and Eckhart.After the Revelation of Saint John the Divine, the most sublime and encompassing portrait of heaven to date has come not from a theologian but from a poet--Dante Alighieri in his Divine Comedy. Russell's history of heaven culminates in a lively analysis of how Dante described the glories of the indescribable. The unsurpassed images of light, ...
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ISBN10: 0691006849, ISBN13: 9780691006840, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover Explores the brighter side of eternity: heaven. Dispensing with the images of goodness that can make even heaven seem unbearable, this book stimulates our imagination with a history of how the joy of paradise has been conceived by writers, philosophers, and artists for whom heaven was an imminent reality. Num Pages: 256 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRLB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 371. . 1998. Revised ed. Paperback. . . . .
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ISBN10: 0691006849, ISBN13: 9780691006840, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover pp. 256
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