Paradise Mislaid: How We Lost Heaven--and How We Can Regain ItOxford University Press, 1 maj 2006 - 224 sidor 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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... Christianity (1977) A History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics, Pagans (1980) Medieval Heresies: A Bibliography 1960–1979, with Carl T. Berkhout (1981) Satan: The Early Christian Tradition (1981) Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages ...
... Christianity (1977) A History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics, Pagans (1980) Medieval Heresies: A Bibliography 1960–1979, with Carl T. Berkhout (1981) Satan: The Early Christian Tradition (1981) Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages ...
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... Christian modes of thinking and to uncover the richness of Christian heaven ... culture for millennia and deserves more attention and respect than it has ... cultures such as Chinese or Hindi do not fit the same template as English ...
... Christian modes of thinking and to uncover the richness of Christian heaven ... culture for millennia and deserves more attention and respect than it has ... cultures such as Chinese or Hindi do not fit the same template as English ...
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... Christianity but still remarkably different.4 Powerful and beautiful insights ... Christian concept of heaven in particular. Culture has been defined as the ... tradition, which is not memory of a dead past but rather the transmission of ...
... Christianity but still remarkably different.4 Powerful and beautiful insights ... Christian concept of heaven in particular. Culture has been defined as the ... tradition, which is not memory of a dead past but rather the transmission of ...
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... Christian tradition is powerful, rich, subtle, and worthy of serious consideration. “Heaven is not a mere appendage on the main body of Christian doctrine. Rather, it pervades it through and through.”8 Statistics are ephemeral ...
... Christian tradition is powerful, rich, subtle, and worthy of serious consideration. “Heaven is not a mere appendage on the main body of Christian doctrine. Rather, it pervades it through and through.”8 Statistics are ephemeral ...
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... Christian concept of heaven—the baseline against which anomalies can be ... tradition of heaven as it developed from the beginning through the fourth ... Christian view of heaven is theocentric—centered on God—is an understatement, for ...
... Christian concept of heaven—the baseline against which anomalies can be ... tradition of heaven as it developed from the beginning through the fourth ... Christian view of heaven is theocentric—centered on God—is an understatement, for ...
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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 Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2006 |
Paradise Mislaid: How We Lost Heaven--and How We Can Regain It Jeffrey Burton Russell Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2006 |
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