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Russell, Jeffrey Burton Paradise Mislaid: How We Lost Heaven and How We Can Regain It
Oxford University Press, USA 2007 0195334582 / 9780195334586 Paperback Fine n/a Paperback
New. Fine in publisher's decorated wrappers. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide.From Publishers Weekly: Starred Review. Russell, who has already written histories of hell and its minions (The Prince of Darkness; Mephistopheles; Satan), takes up where he left off in his 1997 book A History of Heaven. In his previous work, he offered a splendid survey of the idea of heaven up through the Middle Ages. Here, he traces the history of heaven from the 16th century through the late 20th, providing a marvelous overview of the many philosophical, literary, social, and even religious forces that have challenged the concept of heaven. Russell focuses on the Christian notion of heaven and its attendant beliefs in resurrection of the body, immortality of the soul, and angels, as well as the view of heaven as a specific place where believers will reside after death. Although in the Middle Ages, belief in such a paradise seemed secure, by the 18th century, philosophers such as Voltaire, Locke and Hume questioned the idea of a cosmos ruled by a benevolent deity as well as the existence of miracles, heaven and God. Romantic writers such as Wordsworth, Blake, Emerson and Goethe recovered heaven in the 19th century, but, as Russell points out, the Romantics' heaven was an internal one. Russell's elegant survey of heaven offers a first-rate history of a much debated subject. (May) Copyright ¬ Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.From Booklist: *Starred Review* How did the celestial hope of St. Paul and St. Augustine dwindle into a foolish delusion dismissed by Sartre and Derrida? In a work that provocatively complements his History of Heaven (1997), Russell chronicles the erosion of traditional Christian understandings of heaven incompatible with surging secular modern philosophies, including the science that explains the stars as fallout from a big bang and humans as the accidental offspring of evolution. Likewise corrosive of heavenly orthodoxy, Freudian psychologists have defined religious hope as a collective fantasy even as Marxist theorists have attacked faith as an obstacle to political progress. But Russell does more than provide a lucid recital of skeptics' assaults on heaven. He fights back. A lapsed atheist, this accomplished cultural historian turns the tables on the skeptics, subjecting their antireligious arguments to a skeptical scrutiny, showing, for example, how the scientific foes of religion must smuggle into their progressive philosophies beliefs that their own theories cannot sustain. Russell's debunking of the debunkers takes on particular seriousness when he defends the scripture, religious poetry, and hymns that secularists dismiss as wishful metaphor. Steering clear of the hyperliteralism that gives secularists tempting targets, Russell argues that, far from hiding dark realities behind pretty illusions, the great depth-metaphors of Christianity--from the luminous New Jerusalem of Revelation to the heavenly chariot of African American spirituals--gesture toward realities too cosmic to fit within ordinary language. Believers and unbelievers alike will find much here to challenge their thinking. Bryce Christensen Copyright ¬ American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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