Paradise Mislaid: How We Lost Heaven--and How We Can Regain ItOxford University Press, 2006-05-01 - 224 psl. The Christian concept of heaven flourished for almost two millennia, but it has lost much of its power in the last hundred years. Indeed today even theologians tend to avoid the topic. But heaven has always been a central tenet of the Christian faith, writes Jeffrey Burton Russell. If there is no heaven, no resurrection of the dead, the entire Christian story makes no sense. In this stimulating book, Russell sets out to rehabilitate heaven by forcefully attacking a series of ideas that have made belief in heaven, not to mention belief in God, increasingly difficult for modern people. Russell provides elegant and persuasive refutations of arguments ranging from the idea that science has disproved the existence of the supernatural, to the notion that biblical criticism has emptied the scripture of meaning. Along the way, as Russell looks at the ideas of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer, Mark Twain and Alfred Lord Tennyson, Marx and Freud, and a host of others, he sheds light not only on the history of Christian thought, but on the process of secularization in the West. One by one, Russell refutes these anti-religious ideologies, pinpointing the deficiencies of their reasoning. Throughout the book, Russell invites the reader, whatever his or her beliefs, to take the concept of heaven seriously both as a worldview in itself and as one with enormous influence on the world. It is a book that will be welcomed by thinking Christians, who often feel beleaguered by the forces of modernity and sometimes find it hard to defend their own beliefs. |
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... cosmos with love and invites it to share his joy in its love for itself and for him.11 The use of the pronoun “He” does not imply a sexual limitation or gender preference in God. It has two advantages: because it is common usage, it is ...
... cosmos with love and invites it to share his joy in its love for itself and for him.11 The use of the pronoun “He” does not imply a sexual limitation or gender preference in God. It has two advantages: because it is common usage, it is ...
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... cosmos. The cosmos is eternal in God. There was never God along with something else, never God and some “thing” we could call “nothing,” never God plus an expanse of emptiness. God creates the cosmos from himself, for there is an ...
... cosmos. The cosmos is eternal in God. There was never God along with something else, never God and some “thing” we could call “nothing,” never God plus an expanse of emptiness. God creates the cosmos from himself, for there is an ...
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... cosmos. Throughout this book I use “world” in the classical sense of cosmos or universe, not in the sense of the planet Earth. God's act of creation wells forth through the whole cosmos. God creates for love, a selfless love aimed only ...
... cosmos. Throughout this book I use “world” in the classical sense of cosmos or universe, not in the sense of the planet Earth. God's act of creation wells forth through the whole cosmos. God creates for love, a selfless love aimed only ...
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... cosmos. As humans needed preparation for Christ's first coming, so they need further preparation for his second coming. When he comes again, at the end of time, those who choose God remain eternally with him while those who reject God ...
... cosmos. As humans needed preparation for Christ's first coming, so they need further preparation for his second coming. When he comes again, at the end of time, those who choose God remain eternally with him while those who reject God ...
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... cosmos. According to modern cosmologists, the end of the cosmos will occur (if ever) after billions of years, long after the demise of Earth and of humanity. Even in the unlikely event that humans should colonize other solar systems or ...
... cosmos. According to modern cosmologists, the end of the cosmos will occur (if ever) after billions of years, long after the demise of Earth and of humanity. Even in the unlikely event that humans should colonize other solar systems or ...
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CHAPTER 2 Up | 17 |
CHAPTER 3 Enchantment | 43 |
CHAPTER 4 Ahead | 69 |
CHAPTER 5 Back | 83 |
CHAPTER 6 In and Out | 105 |
CHAPTER 7 Forward | 133 |
CHAPTER 8 Here | 157 |
Notes | 163 |
Bibliography | 185 |
Index | 195 |
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Paradise Mislaid– How We Lost Heaven--and How We Can Regain It Jeffrey Burton Russell Ribota peržiūra - 2006 |
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