Heaven and Hell in Enlightenment England

This book examines life after death and changing concepts of heaven and hell in English thought from 1650 to 1750. It explores seventeenth- and eighteenth-century images of the journey of body and soul, from Platonist accounts of pre-existence, the final judgement and beyond into heaven or hell. It...

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Subtitles:Heaven & Hell in Enlightenment England
Main Author: Almond, Philip C. 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1994.
In:Year: 1994
Reviews:Heaven and hell in Enlightenment England. By Philip C. Almond. Pp. xiii + 218 + 16 plates. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. £30. 0 521 45371 2 (1995) (Young, B. W.)
Heaven and Hell in Enlightenment England. Philip C. Almond (1996) (Pearson, Samuel C.)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B England / Heaven / Hell / Intellectual history 1680-1790
B England / Eschatology / Intellectual history 1680-1790
B England / Immortality / Intellectual history 1680-1790
Further subjects:B Religious Thought (England) 17th century
B Hell Christianity History of doctrines
B Hell ; Christianity ; History of doctrines
B Future life ; Christianity ; History of doctrines ; 18th century
B Heaven ; Christianity ; History of doctrines
B England ; Intellectual life ; 17th century
B Religious Thought England, 17th century
B Religious Thought England, 18th century
B Religious Thought (England) 18th century
B England ; Intellectual life ; 18th century
B Future Life Christianity History of doctrines, 17th century
B Future Life Christianity History of doctrines, 18th century
B Religious thought ; England ; 18th century
B Religious thought ; England ; 17th century
B England Intellectual life 17th century
B Future Life Christianity History of doctrines 18th century
B Future Life Christianity History of doctrines 17th century
B England Intellectual life, 17th century
B England Intellectual life, 18th century
B Future life ; Christianity ; History of doctrines ; 17th century
B England Intellectual life 18th century
B Heaven Christianity History of doctrines
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Print version: 9780521453714
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Summary:This book examines life after death and changing concepts of heaven and hell in English thought from 1650 to 1750. It explores seventeenth- and eighteenth-century images of the journey of body and soul, from Platonist accounts of pre-existence, the final judgement and beyond into heaven or hell. It discloses a society in which frail and fleeting human life was lived out in the expectation of salvation or damnation, of eternal happiness or eternal torment, of heaven or hell and depicts a world radically different from our own. Drawing on the writings not only of the elite but also of the middling and lower classes, Almond shows how there hovered around images of the afterlife many classical and contemporary debate: free will and predestination, materialism and dualism, religion and science, Catholicism and Protestantism, religious and political radicalism, demonology and witchcraft and so on. The picture which emerges is both representative of the age as a whole and enables us to appreciate more fully contemporary understandings of the meaning of human life and death.
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ISBN:0511584695
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511584695