Heaven and philosophy / edited by Simon Cushing.

Contributor Cushing, Simon, 1968- editor.

ImprintLanham ; New York : Lexington Books [2018]

Descriptionxxxv, 279 pages ; 24 cm

Note:Confessions of a struggling philosopher : why I want to believe in heaven (but reluctantly don't) -- Radical resurrection and divine commands -- Heaven before resurrection : soul, body, and the intermediate state -- Paradise ... lost? Against locational accounts of heaven -- Could everyone eventually be saved? -- The agony of the infinite : the presence of God as phenomenological hell -- Love and death -- Heaven and the problem of eternal separation -- Two arguments for animal immortality -- Evil, freedom, and heaven -- Will we be free (to sin) in heaven? -- Heaven and homicide.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note:This volume, which includes accessibly written chapters by skeptics and believers, asks deep questions about the nature, possibility, and desirability of heaven that will be of interest to anyone who has pondered life beyond the grave.

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