Heaven, the Heart’s Deepest Longing
Overview
A major book on the subject of heaven, this expanded edition examines the hunger for heaven that is so strong in all of us. Fascinating and upbeat, Heaven, the Heart's Deepest Longing thoroughly explores the psychological and theological dimensions of this search for total joy and for the ultimate reality that grounds it.
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- Explores psychological and theological dimensions of a search for heaven
- Examines the hunger for heaven that is so strong in all of us
- Provides valuable insight for Catholics and Protestants alike
- The Beginning of the Quest: The Heart's Hunger for Heaven
- The Time if the Quest: Time of Exile
- The Place of the Quest: Earth Haunted by Heaven
- The End of the Quest: The Joy of Heaven
- The Results of the Quest: What Difference Does Heaven Make to Monday Morning?
Top Highlights
“The Greeks are the other root of the tree of Western civilization. The Jews gave us conscience; the Greeks, reason. The Jews gave us the laws of morality, of what ought to be; the Greeks gave us the laws of thought and of being, of what is. And their philosophers discovered a new concept of God and a new concept of heaven.” (Page 15)
“Ever since Kant, the modern dualism has been not merely between matter and spirit but between objective matter and subjective spirit. The two idol-kingdoms are built in these two realms: the Kingdom of This World in the realm of objective matter at the expense of spirit and the Kingdom of the Self in the realm of subjective spirit at the expense of the objective. Subjective truth replaces objective truth; subjective values replace objective values. Both kingdoms are alternatives to the Kingdom of God, which is built in the realm of objective spirit. God is objective spirit, and when ‘God is dead’, the objective world is reduced to matter and the spiritual world is reduced to subjectivity. That is our dualism.” (Page 23)
“According to the Greek philosophers, reason is the highest thing in us. Reason should judge love; we are to love and live according to reason. But according to Christianity, we are to love beyond reason, as God does, with agapē, nonjudgmental love, love that does not follow worthiness but creates it. Reason follows love rather than love following reason; only if we love will we know.” (Page 38)
“Living for no reason is not living but mere existing, mere surviving. As Viktor Frankl found in a Nazi concentration camp, our deepest, rock-bottom need is not pleasure, as Freud thought, or power, as Adler thought, but meaning and purpose, ‘a reason to live and a reason to die’.3 We need a meaning to life more than we need life itself.” (Page 12)
- Title: Heaven: The Heart’s Deepest Longing
- Author: Peter Kreeft
- Publisher: Ignatius
- Print Publication Date: 1989
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Pages: 281
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Heaven › Christianity
- ISBNs: 9780898702286, 0898702283
- Resource ID: LLS:HVNHRTSDPSTLNGN
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:03:21Z