The History Of Ideas About Heaven

[Cheerful Charlie]

Over centuries, theological theories about heaven, its nature, and location kept mutating and changing. Discovery of the telescope made a lot of old theories obsolete and doubtful. From the Aeon website here is a history of all of this. Very well written and interesting. A good bit of what I call historical theology. Quite informative and amusing.

How heaven became a place among the stars | Aeon Essays

For hundreds of years, Christians knew exactly where heaven was: above us and above the stars. Then came the new cosmologists

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[Unknown Soldier]

Over centuries, theological theories about heaven, its nature, and location kept mutating and changing. Discovery of the telescope made a lot of old theories obsolete and doubtful. From the Aeon website here is a history of all of this. Very well written and interesting. A good bit of what I call historical theology. Quite informative and amusing.

Personally, the Christian heaven doesn't appeal to me. It sounds really boring if not annoying.

 

[Thomas II]

Over centuries, theological theories about heaven, its nature, and location kept mutating and changing. Discovery of the telescope made a lot of old theories obsolete and doubtful. From the Aeon website here is a history of all of this. Very well written and interesting. A good bit of what I call historical theology. Quite informative and amusing.

Personally, the Christian heaven doesn't appeal to me. It sounds really boring if not annoying.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Over centuries, theological theories about heaven, its nature, and location kept mutating and changing. Discovery of the telescope made a lot of old theories obsolete and doubtful. From the Aeon website here is a history of all of this. Very well written and interesting. A good bit of what I call historical theology. Quite informative and amusing.

Personally, the Christian heaven doesn't appeal to me. It sounds really boring if not annoying.

LOL. If gall bladders aren't bad enough, who would want to spend eternity with Jerry Falwell?

 

[steve_bank]

wrong thread

 

[Elixir]

I’m with the godders myself. But the survey makes some sense, Coke HQ being in Atlanta and Pepsi’s being in NY.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Moxie!