Regnum Caelorum (2nd Ed)
Charles HillPaperback 2001-04-01
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Regnum Caelorum is a groundbreaking book that explores the largely overlooked connection in early Christian thought between understandings of the millennium and beliefs about the intermediate state of the soul after death.Charles Hill traces various views of the soul's fate in Jewish texts, the New Testament, and early Christian writings through the mid-third century A.D. His findings lead to a provocative new assessment of the development of Christian eschatology that corrects many misconceptions of earlier scholarly research.This second edition updates and substantially expands Hill's highly respected work originally published by Oxford.
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Publisher Description
Regnum Caelorum is a groundbreaking book that explores the largely overlooked connection in early Christian thought between understandings of the millennium and beliefs about the intermediate state of the soul after death.Charles Hill traces various views of the soul's fate in Jewish texts, the New Testament, and early Christian writings through the mid-third century A.D. His findings lead to a provocative new assessment of the development of Christian eschatology that corrects many misconceptions of earlier scholarly research.This second edition updates and substantially expands Hill's highly respected work originally published by Oxford.