| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 468 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Prologue: Stephen Dedalus' Hell -- After lives -- Egypt -- Mesopotamia and Israel -- Greece and Rome -- The Christian beginnings -- Dante: Inferno -- Predestination: Augustine to Calvin and beyond -- The decline of Hell -- Rome's happiest inspiration? -- 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 -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
A survey of ideas on death, immortality, the afterlife, sin, retribution, goodness and salvation, this book draws on philosophical and literary material from Ancient Egypt, Greece, Judaism, Islam, Christianity, and modern and secular work |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Future life -- History of doctrines.
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RELIGION -- Eschatology.
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Future life -- History of doctrines
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199723263 |
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0199723265 |
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9780195092950 |
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0195092953 |
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