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Paradise mislaid
how we lost heaven--and how we can regain it
By Russell, Jeffrey Burton
- ISBN
- 978-0-19516-006-2
- Publisher
- Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 2006
Russell (history, emeritus, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara;A History of Heaven ) takes a careful and scholarly look at the concept of heaven in Western thought and the philosophical debate that has surrounded it. Using a "history of concepts" approach, he rejects all attempts to explain away the idea of heaven and considers the notion assuming it expresses a truth about reality. Russell is by no means a hyperlite...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
