Heaven: A Travellers Guide to the Undiscovered Country
Heaven: A Travellers Guide to the Undiscovered Country
Peter Stanford
A stimulating inquiry into one of the great religious mysteries – and what theologians, artists, writers, psychologists, priests, historians and people from all religions and walks of life have thought of heaven, where many of us still hope to go one day.
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A stimulating inquiry into one of the great religious mysteries – and what theologians, artists, writers, psychologists, priests, historians and people from all religions and walks of life have thought of heaven, where many of us still hope to go one day.
The author writes: ‘While images of hell are firmly fixed in the human psyche, no parallel standard vision exists for heaven either within the Christian Church or more widely in the world’s various religious traditions…it has somehow been judged indecent or presumptuous to contemplate the better end of the post-mortem destination market. This book will break that taboo.’
Heaven’s mysteriousness has leant it a discreet but powerful allure. There are two basic views: first, the afterlife will involve a vaguely defined spiritual peace – eternal solitude with God alone; the second allows for some overlap between heaven and earth, and hence relationships outside the central bond with God. Or is heaven religion’s biggest con-trick but one that is impossible to debunk?
Product Description
Title - Heaven: A Travellers Guide to the Undiscovered Country
Edition -
Author - Peter Stanford
ISBN 13 - 9780006531579
Imprint - HarperCollins
Publisher - HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published - 17/03/2003
Prize -
No. of pages -
Binding Type - Paperback
Dimensions - 129 x 198 x 22mm
Weight - 297 g
Languages - English