There was a time when heaven was in heaven. But then something happened to heaven. As long as the physical universe had some sense of “up” one could locate heaven above. “I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God” (Rev 21:2). With the rise of modern science, the tidy world picture of a centered earth and a sphere of stars on the circumfe (...)
December 15, 2006
Books
Measuring the Pearly Gates
Paradise MislaidHow We Lost Heaven—and How We Can Regain ItJeffrey Burton RussellOxford University Press, $28, 224 pp.
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