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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Rezultatai 1–5 iš 56
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... mind entirely open to modifying their points of view in the light of evidence. The gap is wide between point of view and bias: the former is inevitable, whereas the latter is point of view made illegitimate by insisting on prejudices ...
... mind entirely open to modifying their points of view in the light of evidence. The gap is wide between point of view and bias: the former is inevitable, whereas the latter is point of view made illegitimate by insisting on prejudices ...
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... mind invented, then it can be studied only in human terms. If on the other hand heaven does exist in itself— in God—it is still revealed to us only in terms that humans can understand. In either case, human concepts of heaven are the ...
... mind invented, then it can be studied only in human terms. If on the other hand heaven does exist in itself— in God—it is still revealed to us only in terms that humans can understand. In either case, human concepts of heaven are the ...
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... mind the term “afterlife,” and although that word did not exist before the twentieth century, the idea of life after death is immemorial.7 But “after life” is only one of a number of ways to consider heaven. In other views it is not ...
... mind the term “afterlife,” and although that word did not exist before the twentieth century, the idea of life after death is immemorial.7 But “after life” is only one of a number of ways to consider heaven. In other views it is not ...
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... mind steeped in physicalism has great difficulty in grasping the meaning of a religious observance in any tradition. An example: A very intelligent, well-educated, and thoroughly physicalist woman, showing us slides of her recent trip ...
... mind steeped in physicalism has great difficulty in grasping the meaning of a religious observance in any tradition. An example: A very intelligent, well-educated, and thoroughly physicalist woman, showing us slides of her recent trip ...
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... mind is incapable of ambiguity: I believe in witches or I don't; I believe in evolution or I don't. Ask first-graders what gravity is and they won't know; ask twelfth-graders and they'll know; ask theoretical physicists and they won't ...
... mind is incapable of ambiguity: I believe in witches or I don't; I believe in evolution or I don't. Ask first-graders what gravity is and they won't know; ask twelfth-graders and they'll know; ask theoretical physicists and they won't ...
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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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