what might heaven be like?
- Written by Philip Almond, Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland
Surrounded by Angels, by Carl Schweninger der Jungere, 1912Wikimedia CommonsWhat will Heaven be like? Perhaps not surprisingly, competing images abound. Until around the end of the 17th century, Heaven was primarily about the Beatific Vision. The perfect happiness of eternity in Heaven consisted in the worship, praise and adoration of God along...