Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife
…out in their wonderful book, Heaven: A History, this idea of a social, or domesticated heaven, is a relatively recent invention—an idea that really took root around the time of the Civil War. From the beginning, heaven was a place where people went to be with God. In Dante’s Paradiso, the blessed reside in different levels, but every person in each level is focused on one thing, God, and is thus perfectly content with her hierarchical place. Even…
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