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Zusatztext "Carol and Phillip Zaleski have invited us to make a journey through the world to come. Even though Jesus says that eyes have not seen, nor ears have heard, nor has it entered into our minds what that world might be like. Still we humans have tried our best to guess what it's like. The Zaleski's have collected the best of those best tries and enlightened and entertained us and perhaps stirred up our hopes and expectiations."-Andrew M. Greeley, Professor of Social Science, The University of Chicago Informationen zum Autor Carol Zaleski is Professor of Religion at Smith College. She is the author of Otherworld Journeys and The Life of the World to Come (both OUP). Philip Zaleski is Lecturer in Religion at Smith College and Senior Editor of Parabola. He is the author of The Recollected Heart and Gifts of the Spirit, and editor of the annual Best Spiritual Writing series. They live in Northampton, Massachusetts. Klappentext This rich anthology of writings about heaven spans the millennia as well as the globe: the sacred chants of the Buddhist Pure Land sutras reverberate alongside John Donne's holy sonnets, and Shaker songs complement Jewish mystical hymns. 10 illustrations. Zusammenfassung In every culture and epoch, human beings have yearned for heaven - the kingdom of God, abode of the elect, fount of enlightenment, mirror of hopes and desires. This work is an anthology of writings about heaven, drawing from scriptures, myths, epics, poems, prayers, sermons, novels and spells. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: The Journey. With readings from Alighieri, St Bede the Venerable, John Bunyan, Henry Fielding, P B Shelley, CG Jung, The Greek Magical Papyri, The Second Book of Jeu, Sir Walter Raleigh Part II: Lands of Bliss. With readings from Rupert Brooke, Louis Ginzberg, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Howard Schwartz, John G Neihardt, Robert Hare, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Part III: The Vision of God. With readings from St Augustine, As-Suyuti, The Sukhavativyuha Sutra, Dante Alighiere, Jonathan Edwards, Marie Corelli, the Bible, Edmund Spenser, John Henry, Cardinal Newman Part IV: The Celestial Court. With readings from Homer, Pseudo-Dionysius, Bhagavat Purana, John Milton, Robert Southey, Lord Byron, Pope Pius XII, G K Chesterton Part V: Heavenly Society. With readings from Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, Julain Barnes, St Hildegard of Bingen, Jalal ad-Din ar Rumi Part VI: Heaven on Earth. With readings from Plato, Milton, Bhagavata Purana, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Fourier, William James, Mikhail Lermontov, Shaker songs. Part VII: New Heaven, New Earth. With readings from the Bible, the Qu'ran, George Sword, St Augustine, C S Lewis, John Donne, Henry Vaughan. Credits Index ...
