Thursday, December 22, 2005

BBC - In Our Time - Heaven

I get BBC "In our Time" via podcast. Here is a fascinating look at the origins of the idea of Heaven:

"The great medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas wrote 'that in the end language can only be related to what is experienced here, and given that the hereafter is not here, we can only infer'. Aquinas encapsulated a great human conundrum that has preoccupied writers and thinkers since ancient times: what might heaven be like. And although human language is constrained by experience, this has not stopped an outpouring of artistic, theological and literary representations of heaven."

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