Semitic background: communicating with the dead
Yahweh alone: no promise for the dead
Apocalypticism: the promise of resurrection
Hellenistic Judaism; the promise of Heaven
Jewish views of the afterlife in the First Century
2. Jesus and the Christian promise
Jesus: no marriage in Heaven
3. Irenaeus and Augustine on our Heavenly bodies
5. The pleasures of Renaissance paradise
6. God at the center: protestant and Catholic Reformers
Pious and Ascetic Middle class
7. Swedenborg and the emergence of a modern Heaven
8. Love in the heavenly realm
Pre-romantic precursors: Milton and Swedenborg
9. Eternal motion: progress in the other world
Kinetic revolution in Heaven
Persisting theocentric traditions
Spiritualism: a thick description of Heaven
10. Heaven in contemporary Christianity.
