Author : Jonathan C. R. Hill
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666791105
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)
Book Synopsis Eternal in the Heavens by : Jonathan C. R. Hill
Download or read book Eternal in the Heavens written by Jonathan C. R. Hill and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If there were a perfect, unending existence awaiting us after death, what would it be like? What would we do there? Would you want to go there at all? Today, philosophers of religion are increasingly interested in questions of this kind. This book uses the approach of analytic philosophy to examine a conception of heaven that is rooted in Christian tradition but rarely considered by modern philosophers and theologians: heaven as atemporal, that is, a state in which no time passes. It argues that such a view is not only coherent but offers answers to some key problems facing the concept of heaven. Along the way, it considers topics such as the nature of time, the possibility of atemporal persons, the relationship between earthly and heavenly selves, the beatific vision and the role of the body, and how the blessed in heaven could be said to be divine.