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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 the intermediate state of the soul after death. Charles Hill traces Christian views of the soul's fate in Jewish texts, the New Testament, and in early Christian writers 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 original work published by Oxford.
In the Introduction a previous publisher states, We believe this work to be the most complete, honest and best documented work available on this subject. We present this work hoping that the facts presented will be more highly esteemed than common dogma and tradition. The author devoted years of intense and reliable study in the Library of Congress, with the help of insiders, to create this work. Considered one of the most important and accurate books on Christianity ever written. Covers the origin and history of Christian doctrines, lost gospels, a list of those gospels that were destroyed, and information on Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, and Turtullian. Presents carefully researched facts that often oppose traditional beliefs.
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