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Paradise Understood: New Philosophical Essays: New Philosophical Essays about Heaven
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Description for Paradise Understood: New Philosophical Essays: New Philosophical Essays about Heaven
hardcover. A collection of seventeen philosophical essays that systematically investigate heaven, or paradise, as conceived within theistic religious traditions. Editor(s): Byerly, T. Ryan; Silverman, Eric J. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRAB; HRCM; HRCV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
Paradise Understood: New Philosophical Essays about Heaven systematically investigates heaven, or paradise, as conceived within theistic religious traditions such as Rabbinic Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It considers a variety of topics concerning what life in paradise would, could, or will be like for human persons. The collection offers novel approaches to questions about heaven of perennial philosophical interest, and breaks new ground by expanding the range of questions about heaven that philosophers have considered. The contributors wrestle with questions about human life in paradise that span the spectrum of the major subfields of philosophical enquiry. By employing both historical ... Read more
Paradise Understood: New Philosophical Essays about Heaven systematically investigates heaven, or paradise, as conceived within theistic religious traditions such as Rabbinic Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It considers a variety of topics concerning what life in paradise would, could, or will be like for human persons. The collection offers novel approaches to questions about heaven of perennial philosophical interest, and breaks new ground by expanding the range of questions about heaven that philosophers have considered. The contributors wrestle with questions about human life in paradise that span the spectrum of the major subfields of philosophical enquiry. By employing both historical ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
378
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198794301
SKU
V9780198794301
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About Byerly
T. Ryan Byerly is a Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion at the University of Sheffield. His primary research interests are in Philosophy of Religion, Epistemology, and Virtue Ethics. He is the author of The Mechanics of Divine Foreknowledge and Providence: A Time-Ordering Account (Bloomsbury, 2014). Eric J. Silverman is an Assistant Professor at Christopher Newport University. His research interests ... Read more
Reviews for Paradise Understood: New Philosophical Essays: New Philosophical Essays about Heaven
There is much erudition, insight and precise and careful reasoning on display throughout.
Philip G. Ziegler, International Journal of Systematic Theology
T. Ryan Byerly and Eric J. Silverman have edited an impressive collection of 17 new essays dealing with these and other problems related to the possibility and desirability of Heavenly existence, its presuppositions, and its implications...All of ... Read more
Philip G. Ziegler, International Journal of Systematic Theology
T. Ryan Byerly and Eric J. Silverman have edited an impressive collection of 17 new essays dealing with these and other problems related to the possibility and desirability of Heavenly existence, its presuppositions, and its implications...All of ... Read more