Week 6: Thinking About Heaven

The volume of things that have been written, sung, painted, preached, and thought about the life of God’s people after they die is like oceans or mountains, which is to be contrasted with the relative paucity of what the Bible has to say on the subject. We cannot hope to do justice to all the ideas and speculations about heaven, but in this class we will deal with what the Bible does say, and try to deal fairly with what the historic Christian Church has said, along with what sympathy card writers and artists as well as song writers and philosophers have communicated about the matter.