Meeting in heaven
modernising the Christian afterlife, 1600-2000
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Word Count
41,500 words, Guess
Page Count
166 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-103631620004
- ISBN-139783631620007
- Library of Congress Control Number2011294368
- OCLC Control Number764564281
- OCLC Control Number750714688
and 2 more
- Better World Books9783631620007
- Open LibraryOL25186805M
Classifications
- LCCBT846.3 .L36 2011
- LCCBT846.3.L26 M4 2011
- LCCBT846.3 .L26 M4 2011
Description
In heaven, we will meet our friends: this was one of the most conspicuous expectations Christians had, and continue to have, of life after death. While the theme as such is almost as old as Christianity, it came to flourish only in early-modern times, peaking in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This book explores how the rediscovery and developemnt of the 'meeting again' theme by authors such as John Bunyan and Emanuel Swedenborg and by the artist William Blake created a specifically modern heaven. Giving priority to an eternity of continuing earthly passions and family ties, the modern notion of heaven contrasts with earlier, God-centred notions of an eternal saintly solitude spent contemplating God in 'beatific vision'."--Cover, p. 4.
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