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Author Almond, Philip C

Title Heaven and Hell in Enlightenment England / Philip C. Almond
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 218 pages) : illustrations
Contents The journey of the soul. The pre-existence of the soul. Pre-existence and human suffering. The origin of souls. Pre-existence and the Scriptures. The transmigration of souls. Free will, human and divine. The vehicles of the soul. A Platonic map of the world -- From the hour of death to the day of judgement. The mortality of the soul. Thomas Browne and the destiny of the soul. Radical mortalists. Hobbes and the Kingdom of God. Richard Overton and John Milton. 'Flying like an Eagle in the Air'. Henry Dodwell and the breath of God. The rejection of Purgatory. Purgatory revisited -- The contours of heaven and hell. Hell's torments. The dark fires of hell. Punishments, body and soul. Co-partners in sin. Abominable fantasies. Heavenly joys. Heavenly bodies. The symmetry of contrasts -- The last day. Un-platonic fires. Hell on earth. From the earth to the sun. Gods, suns, and comets. Resurrection and persons. Spiritual bodies. Personal identity and the soul -- Eternal torments. Eternal or temporary? Reason and scripture. Wrath, mercy, and justice. Infinite offence. Unfulfilled threatenings? The ultimate deterrent?
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-211) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Future life -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- 17th century
Future life -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- 18th century
Heaven -- Christianity -- History of doctrines
Hell -- Christianity -- History of doctrines
Religious thought -- England -- 17th century
Religious thought -- England -- 18th century
RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Eschatology.
Intellectual life
Religious thought
Jenseitsglaube
Hemel.
Hel.
Mort -- Aspect religieux -- Christianisme.
Résurrection -- Enseignement biblique.
Pensée religieuse -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire.
Vie future -- Christianisme.
Vie future -- Christianisme -- Histoire des doctrines -- 18e siècle.
Pensée religieuse -- Grande-Bretagne -- Angleterre (GB) -- 18e siècle.
Vie intellectuelle -- Grande-Bretagne -- Angleterre (GB) -- 17e siècle.
Vie intellectuelle -- Grande-Bretagne -- Angleterre (GB) -- 18e siècle.
Paradis.
Enfer -- Enseignement biblique.
Grande-Bretagne -- Vie intellectuelle -- 18e siècle.
Geschichte 1650-1750.
SUBJECT England -- Intellectual life -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043302
England -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043303
Subject England
England
Großbritannien
Engeland.
Grande-Bretagne -- Vie intellectuelle -- Histoire.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0511000154
9780511000157
9780511584695
0511584695