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Jeffrey Burton Russell

A History of Heaven

The Singing Silence

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Well-known for his historical accounts of Satan and hell, Jeffrey Burton Russell here explores the brighter side of eternity: heaven. Dispensing with the cliché images of goodness that can make even heaven seem unbearable, the author stimulates our imagination with a history of how the joy of paradise has been conceived by writers, philosophers, and artists for whom heaven was an imminent reality. Russell not only explores concepts found among the ancient Jews, Greeks, and Romans as well as early and medieval Christians, but also addresses the intellectual problems heaven poses: how does time pass in eternity? is heaven a place or a state? wh… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-691-00684-0
  • EAN: 9780691006840
  • Produktnummer: 21866492
  • Verlag: Princeton University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
  • Seitenangabe: 252 S.
  • Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.4 cm 412 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 412

Über den Autor


Jeffrey Burton Russell is Professor of History and Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of fifteen previous books, including most recently Mephistopheles: The Devil in the Modern World, The Prince of Darkness, A History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics, Pagans, and Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians.

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