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Farther Off From Heaven |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Julian Norris Hartt |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1989 |
| Size: 3,935 Words, 23,579 Characters |
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HEAVEN
A History
Colleen McDannell and Bernhard Lang
Yale University Press, New Haven & New York: 1988
410 pp., $29.95
Colleen McDannell is a lecturer in history and religion in the European Division of the University of Maryland; Bernhard Lang is professor of Religion in the University of Paderborn, Germany. Misappropriating Browning, we might ask these able scholars what's a book about heaven for. They clearly identify their interest as historical first and last. If here and there (and markedly at the end) they find fault with some philosophers and theologians, McDannell and Lang nowhere claim to have answers to questions those thinkers have flubbed. It seems that as historians they do not have a license to appraise the truth or falsity of theories and doctrines about heaven. ...
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...on the razor-edge of nuclear annihilation, has also produced narcotics able to induce nirvana on demand, for any and for all. Not exactly a traditional heaven; certainly free, though, from a narrowing focus either on God or on humankind.
So the banality of death and the triteness of heaven are united in our world. An unholy marriage. If you were God, how would you dissolve it? How soon?
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