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This engaging book by one of today's best-known Christian writers explores the history of heaven, from its origins in biblical writings to its most recent representations.A short, accessible book on the history of heaven. Draws together representations of heaven by a wide range of writers, theologians, politicians and artists. Covers literary works such as Dante's Divine Comedy, Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, and the poems of George Herbert. Considers discussions by Marx and Freud of heaven's role in society. Based on serious scholars

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Future life --- Death --- Christianity --- History of doctrines --- Religious aspects --- 237 --- Leven van de toekomst --- Future life - Christianity - History of doctrines --- Death - Religious aspects - Christianity

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L'au-delà, le devenir de l'âme, la mort, sont au coeur des pensées religieuses. Les chrétiens des premiers temps prient, cherchent à intercéder par leurs dévotions pour le salut de l'âme de leurs proches défunts. Le monde des vivants est intimement et quotidiennement lié à celui des morts. Au cours des IIIe et IVe siècles, alors que le christianisme, de religion persécutée, devient religion d'Empire, la richesse des grandes familles infléchit la conception du Salut : les dévotions s'accompagnent de donations fastueuses qui financent les plus riches trésors d'églises et les plus somptueuses constructions de marbre du monde occidental. Le blanc manteau d'églises se constitue, les chapelles funéraires se multiplient, la richesse personnelle et les actes de générosité envers l'Église et ses saints devenant un élément clé dans la recherche de la Rédemption. Ce retournement économique et social provoque des débats doctrinaires houleux au sein de l'Église sur l'argent et ses usages. Peter Brown éclaire ce lien entre Église, doctrine chrétienne et fortune séculaire en étudiant les pratiques et les controverses dans l'ensemble du monde occidental, de l'Afrique du Nord à l'Irlande, de l'Espagne à Babylone, entre le IIIe et le VIIe siècle. Il rend intelligibles, avec finesse, vivacité et une poignante clarté une pensée religieuse profonde et complexe, notamment celles de saint Augustin, saint Colomban ou encore Grégoire de Tours.

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This book examines life after death and changing concepts of heaven and hell in English thought from 1650 to 1750. It explores seventeenth- and eighteenth-century images of the journey of body and soul, from Platonist accounts of pre-existence, the final judgement and beyond into heaven or hell. It discloses a society in which frail and fleeting human life was lived out in the expectation of salvation or damnation, of eternal happiness or eternal torment, of heaven or hell and depicts a world radically different from our own. Drawing on the writings not only of the elite but also of the middling and lower classes, Almond shows how there hovered around images of the afterlife many classical and contemporary debate: free will and predestination, materialism and dualism, religion and science, Catholicism and Protestantism, religious and political radicalism, demonology and witchcraft and so on. The picture which emerges is both representative of the age as a whole and enables us to appreciate more fully contemporary understandings of the meaning of human life and death.

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