Heaven and Hell in Enlightenment England

ISBN-13: 9780521453714 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 252 str.

Philip C. Almond

Opis

This book offers the first full account of life after death and the changing concepts of heaven and hell in English thought from 1650-1750. It explores seventeenth and eighteenth century images of the journey of body and soul from Platonist accounts of preexistence, to the intermediate state between death and the Last Day, to the Final Judgment and beyond into heaven or hell. It discloses a society radically different from our own, in which frail and fleeting human life was lived out in the expectation of salvation or damnation, eternal happiness or torment.

Recenzje

"...this work brings to life the intellectual debates about the supernatural world, which even into the eighteenth century was as real a world to all in England as England itself." Richard M. Golden, Religious Studies Review

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The journey of the soul; 2. From the hour of death to the day of judgement; 3. The contours of heaven and hell; 4. The last day; 5. Eternal torments; Notes; Bibliography; Index.