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Paradise Mislaid: How We Lost Heaven--and How We Can Regain It.(Book review)
From:
The Christian Century
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July 24, 2007| Author:
Ralls, Mark
| COPYRIGHT 2007 The Christian Century Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
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Paradise Mislaid: How We Lost Heaven--and How We Can Regain It.
By Jeffrey Burton Russell. Oxford University Press, 224 pp., $28.00.
ONE OF John Updike's novels features a listless minister who spends most of his time at afternoon tea parties. Updike says this about the man's spiritual condition: "God had become for him like a raisin under the car seat, there but forgotten." In Paradise Mislaid, Jeffrey Burton Russell concludes that heaven has been similarly ...
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