After lives : a guide to heaven, hell, and purgatory /
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Oxford University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Oxford ; New York : |
Publication Dates: | 2010. |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=9eb39fb05afe4472be815cf5b1300582 |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (viii, 468 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: |
9780199723263 9780195092950 |
Index Number: | BL535 |
CLC: | B920 |
Contents: | Dark futures. After lives -- Egypt -- Mesopotamia and Israel -- Greece and Rome -- The Christian beginnings -- Dante : Inferno -- Predestination : Augustine to Calvin and beyond -- The decline of hell -- Purgatory. Rome's happiest inspiration? -- Heaven. Heaven : Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel -- Bodies fleshly and spiritual -- Dante : Paradiso -- Celestial pleasures : Renaissance and Reformation heavens -- Heavenly speculations -- Heaven seen and heard : Swedenborg -- With easy intercourse pass to and fro -- Scoring in heaven. |