‘If Heaven’s Not My Home’: Reasserting the Christian Hope against Recent Critics
The historic view of heaven as the abode of the departed saints has recently been criticized as incompatible with the biblical idea of resurrection. The alternative view that heaven melds with earth in a ‘resurrected’ universe is shown to be based on flawed assumptions. The cosmos is not fallen, so...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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The Evangelical quarterly
Year: 2021, Volume: 92, Issue: 3, Pages: 260-278 |
| Further subjects: | B
Heaven
B Resurrection B Redemption B Cosmos B new heaven B Land |
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| Summary: | The historic view of heaven as the abode of the departed saints has recently been criticized as incompatible with the biblical idea of resurrection. The alternative view that heaven melds with earth in a ‘resurrected’ universe is shown to be based on flawed assumptions. The cosmos is not fallen, so it does not need redemption, and resurrection does not pertain to any but human beings in Scripture. The ‘new heavens and new earth’ are rather shown to be a new order of God’s working within history, the counterpart to ideas of cataclysmic destruction figuratively spoken of in the day of the Lord. The early Christian view had a clear focus on heaven, with the paucity of attention to ‘new heavens and new earth’ associated with chiliasm, gradations of salvation or the resurrection of humans. |
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| ISSN: | 2772-5472 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Evangelical quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/27725472-09203010 |