LEADER 03184nam 22004454a 450 001 9910809757203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 0 $a019534779X 010 0 $a9780195347791 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7036372 035 $a(CKB)24235116000041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC281165 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL281165 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10160503 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL83847 035 $a(OCoLC)935262373 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924235116000041 100 $a20051123d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aParadise mislaid $ehow we lost heaven--and how we can regain it /$fJeffrey Burton Russell 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2006 215 $ax, 210 p 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 185-193) and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1 Shut and Open -- CHAPTER 2 Up -- CHAPTER 3 Enchantment -- CHAPTER 4 Ahead -- CHAPTER 5 Back -- CHAPTER 6 In and Out -- CHAPTER 7 Forward -- CHAPTER 8 Here -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z. 330 $aThe 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 isno 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 theidea 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 ofothers, 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 theforces of modernity and sometimes find it hard to defend their own beliefs. 606 $aHeaven$xHistory of doctrines 615 0$aHeaven$xHistory of doctrines. 676 $a236/.2409 700 $aRussell$b Jeffrey Burton$0183628 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910809757203321 996 $aParadise mislaid$93948057 997 $aUNINA