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Paradise Mislaid

How We Lost Heaven and How We Can Regain it

  • Paperback
  • 224 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 14.8 x 22.7 x 1.8 cm

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For readers seeking to understand modern spirituality

Addresses the decline of heaven in contemporary thought

You will discover ways to revive hope and transcendence

Paradise Mislaid explores how we lost the idea of heaven and how we can regain it.

In this book Jeffrey Burton Russell explores the many and complex reasons for the gradual erosion of the idea of heaven in the modern era. Although the seeds of skepticism were planted in the Enlightenment, he shows, the real decline dates to the nineteenth century. This is a fascinating tale that sheds light not only on the history of Christian thought, but on the process of secularization in the West; Russell shows us the grubby soul of our materialistic and uncritically scientific society. Finally he argues that we can and should make room for paradise for the spiritual health of our culture and points the way towards metaphors of perfection and transcendence that resonate in our time.
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  • Title

    Paradise Mislaid

  • Author

    Jeffrey Burton Russell (, Professor Of History And Religious Studies, Emeritus, University Of California, Santa Barbara)

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    October 2007

  • Weight

    327g

  • Page Count

    224

  • Dimensions

    14.8 x 22.7 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780195334586

  • ISBN-10

    0195334582

  • Eden Code

    1147013

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