Chastity
John Barton, 16 March 1989
The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity
by Peter Brown.
Faber, 504 pp., £32.50, February 1989,0 571 15446 8 Show More
by Peter Brown.
Faber, 504 pp., £32.50, February 1989,
Adam, Eve and the Serpent
by Elaine Pagels.
Weidenfeld, 189 pp., £14.95, September 1988,0 297 79326 8 Show More
by Elaine Pagels.
Weidenfeld, 189 pp., £14.95, September 1988,
Heaven: A History
by Colleen McDannell and Bernhard Lang.
Yale, 410 pp., £16.95, November 1988,0 300 04346 5 Show More
by Colleen McDannell and Bernhard Lang.
Yale, 410 pp., £16.95, November 1988,
“... Swedenborg in ‘the emergence of a modern heaven’ cannot be widely appreciated. McDannell and Lang remind us how alien to our ways of thought are many conceptions of heaven that we thought were just like ours. Thus early Christian hopes make sense against an entire system of eschatology which has passed away; the fact that the New Testament can be ... ”
