What is heaven like? For centuries that question conjured within the Christian imagination images of a glorious "elsewhere" - a place very unlike earth where the souls of the saints dwell in a sort of dreamlike bliss. Such a vision was part and parcel of the larger belief that the very goal of "this life" was to escape it, to be delivered into the paradise of "the next life" (a goal far more in keeping with the philosophy of Plato than the narrative of the Bible!).
By contrast, what the book ...
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