Journey to the celestial city :  glimpses of heaven from great literary classics /  [print] 
Wayne Martindale, editor. 
 - Chicago :  Moody Press,  (c)1995. 
 - 144 pages ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>How writers write about heaven : the rhetoric of transcendence  Augustine: The City of God (426) ; St. Augustine's City of God and the postmodern pilgrimage  Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy (1321) ; Dante's vision of heaven  John Milton: Paradise lost (1667) ; finding heaven in Milton's Paradise lost  John Bunyan: The Pilgrim's progress (1678); in this world and the next: Bunyan's The Pilgrim's progress  Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe (1719) ; the story of Robinson Crusoe and the stories of scripture  Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's cabin (1852); walking through fire and singing of heaven: Harriet Beecher Stowe's vision of heaven  George MacDonald: Phantastes (1858) and Lilith (1890) ; a great good is coming: George MacDonald's Phantastes and Lilith  C. S. Lewis: The great divorce (1946) : longing for heaven: C.S. Lewis's The great divorce  by Leland Ryken --  by Gene Edward Veith --  by Barbara Reynolds --  by Leland Ryken --  by E. Beatrice Batson --  by Daniel E. Ritchie --  by Manfred Siebald --  by Rolland Hein --  by Wayne Martindale. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780802443472 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>96106171 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. -- <br/>Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. -- <br/>Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. -- 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Christian literature, English--History and criticism.<br/>Heaven in literature.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR145.M384.J687 1995