Christian Hope and Christian Life: Raids on the Inarticulate
By Rowan A. Greer.
Description
What is the destiny of the human soul in this life and the next? Dare we hope to see God face to face,” or will our vision of God remain forever filtered through a glass, darkly”? In this remarkable volume, Rowan A. Greer turns to the New Testament, the church fathers, and later writers to throw light on their own visions of the human soul. He suggests that Augustine of Hippo and Gregory of Nyssa represent two distinct strands of Christian thinking that find expression later in writers such as John Donne and Jeremy Taylor. Greer, who has trained two generations of historians a...
ISBN(s)
0824519167, 9780824519162
