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Author: Gary Scott Smith (Professor of History, Professor of History, Grove City College)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 16.10cm
, Height: 2.90cm
, Length: 24.30cm
Weight: 0.594kg
ISBN: 9780199738953
ISBN 10: 0199738955
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 09 June 2011
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Smith has written a stimulating and well-documented book that will further promote thinking on this subject of perennial interest. Professor Bernhard Lang, University of Paderborn
Smith has written a stimulating and well-documented book that will further promote thinking on this subject of perennial interest. * Professor Bernhard Lang, University of Paderborn *
<br> What you have in this book is an interesting and complicated story, a growing and expanding imagination of the nature of heaven throughout the American experience and the consistency of the underlying theological positions on how to get there. The book explores beliefs about heaven from diverse perspectives--Catholic to Protestant, evangelical to New Age, Mormon, Jewish and others, all within the context of the historical narrative. . . . Smith's contribution is a worthy addition to adynamic historical investigation, long overdue and currently relevant. In his conclusion, he points out 'tensions' and 'paradoxes' within the variant theological positions, something I found intriguing. If you want to know more about these and along the way have an adventure into the mind and thought of American culture and history, I encourage you to get your own copy. Mine is all marked up. --William Paul Young (author of The Shack), The Washington Times<p><br> In this broad-ranging work, Smith desc
<br> In this broad-ranging work, Smith describes the extraordinary variety of views that the faithful--Puritans, Evangelicals, Liberals, Catholics, Jews, New Agers, and many others--have held about heaven. How to get there, and how to avoid the 'Other Place, ' figure largely too. With deft strokes, Smith shows that notions of heaven never strayed far from the social structures and cultural assumptions of each era and each group. The book combines the careful research of the serious scholar with the winsome prose of a seasoned journalist. --Grant Wacker, author of Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals andAmerican Culture<br><p><br> Mark Twain once said that 'a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.' In Gary Scott Smith's new book, Heaven in the American Imagination, we see how much American Christians' visions of the land of the blessed reflect their changing views of what it means to be perfectly happy and fulfilled. This thorough study adds heavenly perspective to each era of Ameri
Author Information
Gary Scott Smith is Professor of History at Grove City College, in Pennsylvania. He is the author, most recently, of Faith and the Presidency: From George Washington to George W. Bush.
