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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... view made illegitimate by insisting on prejudices and refusing to face evidence. Writers, therefore, should be transparently honest about their views. Heaven in one form or another appears in most world cultures, but (for reasons ...
... view made illegitimate by insisting on prejudices and refusing to face evidence. Writers, therefore, should be transparently honest about their views. Heaven in one form or another appears in most world cultures, but (for reasons ...
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... heaven” only with the clear understanding of their fundamental differences as well as of what they have in common. Judaism and Islam (the other two Western, monotheist religions) are closest in their views of heaven ... view) and analytical ( ...
... heaven” only with the clear understanding of their fundamental differences as well as of what they have in common. Judaism and Islam (the other two Western, monotheist religions) are closest in their views of heaven ... view) and analytical ( ...
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... concept is that heaven is where God is, in love and desire. Where there is love and gratitude, there is God. To say that the Christian view of heaven is theocentric—centered on God—is an understatement, for the very definition of heaven ...
... concept is that heaven is where God is, in love and desire. Where there is love and gratitude, there is God. To say that the Christian view of heaven is theocentric—centered on God—is an understatement, for the very definition of heaven ...
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... view reconciles the apparent contradiction between God as unchanging principle and God as active in human development. Whether God and heaven are being or process (that is, whether God and heaven are from age to age the same or whether ...
... view reconciles the apparent contradiction between God as unchanging principle and God as active in human development. Whether God and heaven are being or process (that is, whether God and heaven are from age to age the same or whether ...
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How We Lost Heaven--and How We Can Regain It Jeffrey Burton Russell. sin ... view embraced both. Our alienation from God is our choice, not God's, and ... heaven regardless of their character—is an old and persistent one that has ...
How We Lost Heaven--and How We Can Regain It Jeffrey Burton Russell. sin ... view embraced both. Our alienation from God is our choice, not God's, and ... heaven regardless of their character—is an old and persistent one that has ...
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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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