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Paradise Mislaid - How We Lost Heaven and How We Can Regain It (Paperback)
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Paradise Mislaid - How We Lost Heaven and How We Can Regain It (Paperback)
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The Christian concept of heaven flourished for almost two
millennia, but it has lost much of its power in the last hundred
years. Indeed today even theologians tend to avoid the topic. This
stimulating book sets out to rehabilitate heaven by forcefully
attacking a series of ideas that have made belief in heaven, not to
mention belief in God, increasingly difficult for modern people.
The author provides elegant and persuasive refutations of arguments
ranging from the idea that science has disproved the existence of
the supernatural, to the notion that biblical criticism has emptied
the scripture of meaning. Along the way, as Russell looks at the
ideas of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer, Mark Twain and Alfred
Lord Tennyson, Marx and Freud, and a host of others, he sheds light
not only on the history of Christian thought, but on the process of
secularization in the West. One by one, Russell refutes these
anti-religious ideologies, pinpointing the deficiencies of their
reasoning.
"A marvelous overview of the many philosophical, literary, social,
and even religious forces that have challenged the concept of
heaven.... Russell's elegant and richly textured survey of heaven
offers a first-rate history of a much-debated subject."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Believers and unbelievers alike will find much here to challenge
their thinking.... Russell argues that, far from hiding dark
realities behind pretty illusions, the great 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."
--Booklist (starred review)
Patient, generous, eloquent, it delivers to the ordinary reader a
brilliant analysis of the long battle for Christian ideas. Russell
shrinks from nothing as he pierces the illusions surrounding
skepticism and cynicism and how these biases have come to dominate
our daily lives. Vitally important for those of us who struggle to
articulate the richness of the faith they hold dear."
--Anne Rice
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