Angel Guide
Aquinas
Boccaccio
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Christian eschatology
Christian Moevs
confession
contemptus
Dante's Commedia
Dante’s Commedia
De Civitate Dei
De Sacramentis
Earthly Paradise
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Face To Face
Faithful Men
Faithful Spouses
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Follow
gender in afterlife
Golden Wings
Gregory The Great
Hereford Mappa Mundi
human
john
medieval concepts of paradise
Medieval Mystical Writings
medieval theology
Milwaukee Public Schools
miserable
Miserable Human
Mortola
mundi
Regina Psaki
sacramentis
Saint Victor
spiritual desire
Statute Makers
theological
Theological Confession
Timeless
transfigured body
Twelfth Century Paris
visionary literature
wicked
Product details
- ISBN 9780815331216
- Weight: 880g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Medieval attempts to capture a glimpse of heaven range from the ethereal to the mundane, utilizing media as diverse as maps, cathedrals, songs, treatises, poems, visions and sewer systems. Heaven was at once the goal of the individual Christian life and the end of the cosmic plan. It was, simply stated, perfection. But interpretations varied from the traditional to the dangerously unique as artists and authors, theologians and visionaries struggled to define that perfection. Depending on the source, heaven's attributes vary from height to depth, darkness to light, silence to symphony; the souls within it from activity to passivity, experience to essence, participation to distant admiration. Questions addressed in this anthology include: Are erotic and spiritual love mutually exclusive? Does the soul's happiness depend on the resurrection of the body? What will be the nature of the transfigured body? Will it retain its gender? Will it have senses? Will it know desire? How can desire and fulfillment exist together? Can the human soul ever know God? Contributors to this volume examine well-known and previously unexplored texts and artefacts from historical and art historical, theological, philosophical, and literary perspectives, to complement and challenge more general surveys of the history of heaven, and above all to illuminate the richness and variety of medieval Christian ideas on heaven.
