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Heaven : a history /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: McDannell, Colleen (Autor), Lang, Bernhard, 1946- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1995?]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The dawn of Heaven
  • Semitic background: communicating with the dead
  • Yahweh alone: no promise for the dead
  • Apocalypticism: the promise of resurrection
  • Hellenistic Judaism; the promise of Heaven
  • Jewish views of the afterlife in the First Century
  • 2. Jesus and the Christian promise
  • Jesus: no marriage in Heaven
  • Paul
  • Revelation to John
  • 3. Irenaeus and Augustine on our Heavenly bodies
  • 4. Medieval Pleasures
  • 5. The pleasures of Renaissance paradise
  • 6. God at the center: protestant and Catholic Reformers
  • Luther and Calvin
  • Catholic Reformers
  • Pious and Ascetic Middle class
  • Theocentric Heaven
  • 7. Swedenborg and the emergence of a modern Heaven
  • 8. Love in the heavenly realm
  • Pre-romantic precursors: Milton and Swedenborg
  • Love and Marriage
  • 9. Eternal motion: progress in the other world
  • Kinetic revolution in Heaven
  • Persisting theocentric traditions
  • Spiritualism: a thick description of Heaven
  • Anthropocentric Heaven
  • 10. Heaven in contemporary Christianity.