Meeting in Heaven: Modernising the Christian Afterlife, 1600 -2000

by Bernhard Lang

In heaven, we will meet our friends: this was one of the most conspicuous expectations Christians had, and continue to have, of life after death. While the theme as such is almost as old as Christianity, it came to flourish only in early-modern times, peaking in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This book explores how the rediscovery and development of the 'meeting again' theme by authors such as John Bunyan and Emanuel Swedenborg and by the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3631620004
• ISBN13: 9783631620007
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 166 Pages