Heaven : the logic of eternal joy /

The Christian doctrine of heaven has been a moral source of enormous power in western culture. It has provided a striking account of the ultimate good in life and has for two millennia animated the hope that our lives can be fully meaningful. Recently, however, the doctrine of heaven has lost much o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walls, Jerry L.
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2002.
Series:Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online. Religion module.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Heaven and God's goodness
  • Heaven, the nature of salvation, and purgatory
  • Heaven and its inhabitants
  • Heaven, Trinity, and personal identity
  • Heaven and the problem of "irredeemable" evil
  • Heaven and visions of life after life
  • Heaven, morality, and the meaning of life.