Paradise Mislaid: How We Lost Heaven-and How We Can Regain It
Jeffrey Burton Russell
ISBN: | 9780199882854 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Published: | 1 May, 2006 |
Format: | eBook |
Paradise Mislaid: How We Lost Heaven-and How We Can Regain It
Jeffrey Burton Russell
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
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