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As It Is in Heaven

by Caitli Smith Gilson

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Cascade Books
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.1 cm

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The loss of a real and heartfelt belief in God--and by "real" I mean an experience that is both steady and moving, ethereal though down-to-earth, sentimental but never trite--comes from an earlier more foundational loss, namely that of an ardent and directed desire for heaven, and more specifically, that paradisal longing for the resurrected life. This book seeks to recover the neglected nature of heaven, degraded into something "out-there" and unknown, degraded further into a vague wish for immortality and the often empty words of consolation. Or even worse, the almost comic book reduction of heaven to an earthly social(ist) paradise, the immanentization of the Christian eschaton. The vague "better place," which is meant well, often means nothing at all, or worse than that can hamper us when approaching and engaging the mystery of grief. This book will address and interrogate various questions about the nature of the afterlife--on the status of guilt, forgiveness, friendship, love, embodiment, sexuality--and propose various paths to answers. We are talking about that sacred innermost promise: the hope of paradisal reunion most secret and yet most universal, never abstract and shapeless, but embodied and individual. We must wonder whether our casual forgetting of this estuary of human hope, the resurrected life, has caused us to lose ourselves in such a way that we do not even know what we have lost.
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  • Author

    Caitli Smith Gilson

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Cascade Books

  • Published

    April 2022

  • Weight

    613g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9781725295612

  • ISBN-10

    172529561X

  • Eden Code

    5682420

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