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Discover and understand the different Christian views of what heaven will be like.
Christians from a variety of denominations and traditions are in middle of an important conversation about the final destiny of the saved. Scholars such as N. T. Wright and J. Richard Middleton have pushed back against the traditional view of heaven, and now some Christians are pushing back against them for fear that talk about the earthiness of our final hope distracts our attention from Jesus.
In the familiar Counterpoints format, Four Views on Heaven brings together a well-rounded discussion and highlights similarities and differences of the current views on heaven. Each author presents their strongest biblical case for their position, followed by responses and a rejoinder that model a respectful tone.
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The Counterpoints series presents a comparison and critique of scholarly views on topics important to Christians that are both fair-minded and respectful of the biblical text. Each volume is a one-stop reference that allows readers to evaluate the different positions on a specific issue and form their own, educated opinion.
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Evaluating the Church Growth Movement
Exploring the Worship Spectrum
Remarriage after Divorce in Todays Church
Understanding Four Views on Baptism
Understanding Four Views on the Lords Supper
Who Runs the Church?
Are Miraculous Gifts for Today?
Do Christians, Muslims, and Jews Worship the Same God? Four Views
Five Views on Apologetics
Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy
Five Views on Law and Gospel
Five Views on Sanctification
Five Views on the Church and Politics
Five Views on the Exodus
Five Views on the Extent of the Atonement
Four Views on Christian Spirituality
Four Views on Christianity and Philosophy
Four Views on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design
Four Views on Divine Providence
Four Views on Eternal Security
Four Views on Hell
Four Views on Moving beyond the Bible to Theology
Four Views on Salvation in a Pluralistic World
Four Views on the Apostle Paul
Four Views on the Book of Revelation
Four Views on the Churchs Mission
Four Views on the Historical Adam
Four Views on the Role of Works at the Final Judgment
Four Views on the Spectrum of Evangelicalism
Genesis: History, Fiction, or Neither?
How Jewish Is Christianity?
Show Them No Mercy
Three Views on Christianity and Science
Three Views on Creation and Evolution
Three Views on Eastern Orthodoxy and Evangelicalism
Three Views on the Millennium and Beyond
Three Views on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament
Three Views on the Rapture
Two Views on Homosexuality, the Bible, and the Church
Two Views on the Doctrine of the Trinity
Two Views on Women in Ministry
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Four Views on Heaven
Copyright 2022 by Michael E. Wittmer, John S. Feinberg, Peter J. Kreeft, Michael Allen, J. Richard Middleton
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ePub Edition November 2021 : ISBN 978-0-310-09389-3
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Michael Allen (PhD, Wheaton College) is the John Dyer Trimble Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida. He is the author of Grounded in Heaven: Recentering Christian Hope and Life in God, Ephesians, and Sanctification.
John S. Feinberg (PhD, University of Chicago) is professor of biblical and systematic theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He is the author of No One Like Him: The Doctrine of God, Light in a Dark Place: The Doctrine of Scripture, and The Many Faces of Evil: Theological Systems and the Problem of Evil.
Peter Kreeft (PhD, Fordham University) is professor of philosophy at Boston College. He is the author of Catholics and Protestants: What They Can Learn from Each Other, Heaven: The Hearts Deepest Longing, and Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Heaven.
J. Richard Middleton (PhD, Free University, Amsterdam) is professor of biblical worldview and exegesis at Northeastern Seminary at Roberts Wesleyan College in Rochester, New York. He is the author of A New Heaven and a New Earth: Reclaiming Biblical Eschatology, Abrahams Silence: The Binding of Isaac, the Suffering of Job, and How to Talk Back to God, and The Liberating Image: The Imago Dei in Genesis 1.
Michael Wittmer (PhD, Calvin Theological Seminary) is professor of systematic theology at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary. He is the author of Heaven Is a Place on Earth, Dont Stop Believing, and Becoming Worldly Saints.
M ost people have not thought too hard about heaven. They tend to think of it like the final line of a childrens story, And they all lived happily ever after. They assume that those who have died are now in heaven doing whatever they did on earth, only better. If someone enjoyed golf, he is smashing long drives down the middle of celestial fairways. If someone loved to paint, she is setting up her easel in front of a glorious vista. And if their friend played the banjo, he is now jamming in heavens band. Which is unbelievable. There are banjoes in heaven?!
Seriously, even Christians have not thought too deeply about what happens when we die. We tend to run all of Gods promised future together, assuming that we get everything he has promised all at once. Funeral sermons often say that our loved one is right now playing baseball, baking pies, or writing poetry that is out of this world. We seldom stop and ask,
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