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Paradise Mislaid

How We Lost Heaven - and How We Can Regain It

Autor: Jeffrey Burton Russell

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Oprawa: Twarda

Wydawca: Oxford University Press Inc

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The Christian concept of heaven flourished for almost two millennia, but it has lost much of its pow...

Informacje o książce

Autor

Jeffrey Burton Russell

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2006

strony

224

EAN

9780195160062

ISBN

0195160061

Enbook ID

04515893

Wydawca

Oxford University Press Inc

Waga

475

Wymiary

163 x 241 x 21

Pełny opis

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.