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

By: Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.Description: viii, 468 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780195092950 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 0195092953 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 202/.3 22
LOC classification:
  • BL535 .C37 2009
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks BL535 .C37 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001139491

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.

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