Meeting in heaven: modernising the Christian afterlife, 1600 - 2000
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 centuri...
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| Language: | English |
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Frankfurt am Main Berlin Bern, Wien [u.a.]
Lang
2011
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| In: | Year: 2011 |
| Reviews: | Meeting in heaven.Modernising the Christian afterlife, 1600–2000. By Bernhard Lang. Pp. 166 incl. 6 figs and 5 tables. Frankfurt-am-Main: Peter Lang, 2011. £25.10 (€27,90). 978 3 631 62000 7 (2014) (Marshall, Peter)
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Heaven (Motif)
/ Re-encounter (Motif)
/ Literature
/ Theology
/ History 1600-2000
B Hereafter / Immortality / Resurrection / Belief in the hereafter / Reception / Swedenborg, Emanuel 1688-1772 / Bunyan, John 1628-1688 / Blake, William 1757-1827 |
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Future Life
B Heaven History of doctrines |
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| Summary: | 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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| ISBN: | 3631620004 |