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Tables of Contents for Heaven
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface to the Second Edition
xiii
Preface
xxi
The Dawn of Heaven
1
22
The Semitic Background: Communicating with the Dead
2
5
Yahweh Alone: No Promise for the Dead
7
4
Apocalypticism: The Promise of Resurrection
11
3
Hellenistic Judaism: The Promise of Heaven
14
5
Jewish Views of the Afterlife in the First Century
19
4
Jesus and the Christian Promise
23
24
Jesus: No Marriage in Heaven
24
8
Paul: Spiritual Bodies
32
5
Revelation to John: The Heavenly Liturgy
37
7
The Christian Promise
44
3
Irenaeus and Augustine on our Heavenly Bodies
47
22
A Compensation for Martyrs: The Glorified Material World
48
6
The Ascetic Promise: A Heaven for Souls
54
5
The Ecclesiastical Promise: Physical Beauty Eternalized
59
8
The Varieties of the Patristic Paradise
67
2
Medieval Promises
69
42
Paradise Garden and Heavenly City
70
10
The Empyren Heaven as a Place of Light
80
8
Everlasting Contemplation of the Divine
88
6
The Promise of Love
94
14
Medieval Heavens
108
3
The Pleasures of Renaissance Paradise
111
34
The Pleasures of a Paradise Garden
112
11
Meeting Again in Heaven: Lovers and Saints
123
19
The Geography of Heaven
142
3
God at the Center: Protestant and Catholic Reformers
145
36
Protestant Reformers: Luther and Calvin
146
10
The Catholic Reformers
156
11
The Pious and Ascetic Middle Class
167
10
Theocentric Heaven
177
4
Swedenborg and the Emergence of a Modern Heaven
181
47
The Immediacy of Life after Death
184
6
The Material Character of Heaven
190
9
Matter in Motion
199
10
Society, Friendship, and Love
209
15
Modern Heaven
224
4
Love in the Heavenly Realm
228
48
Pre-Romantic Precursors: Milton and Swedenborg
229
4
Heaven as Union of Lovers
233
24
Love and Marriage
257
7
Life in the Heavenly Home
264
9
The Triumph of Human Love
273
3
Eternal Motion: Progress in the Other World
276
31
Kinetic Revolution in Heaven
277
10
Persisting Theocentric Traditions
287
5
Spiritiualism: A Thick Description of Heaven
292
11
Anthropocentric Heaven
303
4
Heaven in Contemporary Christianity
307
46
Modern Heavens: A Wish...
309
4
...and a Theology
313
9
The Decline of the Modern Heaven
322
4
The Symbolist Compromise
326
6
Realized Eschatology: Heaven on Earth
332
3
Theocentric Minimalism
335
10
Theology without Promise
345
4
What Happened to Heaven?
349
4
Paradise Found: Themes and Variations
353
6
Notes
359
40
Author Index
399
4
Subject Index
403