NMC Library

After lives : a guide to heaven, hell, and purgatory /

Casey, John 1939-

After lives : a guide to heaven, hell, and purgatory / John Casey. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. - viii, 468 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dark futures. After lives -- Egypt -- Mesopotamia and Israel -- Greece and Rome -- The Christian beginnings -- Dante : Inferno -- Predestination : Augustine to Calvin and beyond -- The decline of hell -- Purgatory. Rome's happiest inspiration? -- Heaven. Heaven : Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel -- Bodies fleshly and spiritual -- Dante : Paradiso -- Celestial pleasures : Renaissance and Reformation heavens -- Heavenly speculations -- Heaven seen and heard : Swedenborg -- With easy intercourse pass to and fro -- Scoring in heaven.

9780195092950 (hardback : alk. paper) 0195092953 (hardback : alk. paper)

2009007204


Future life--History of doctrines.

BL535 / .C37 2009

202/.3

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