All This, and Heaven Too: A Guide for All Souls

This book offers an intelligent but accessible recovery of the Christian hope for heaven and the resurrected life. Our ideas of heaven often need rescuing from the well-meaning but often empty sense of a "better-place." It is more fruitful, the author argues, to orientate ourselves by St. Paul's words: "For this world is not our permanent home; we are looking forward to a home yet to come."

Each of us desires Eden while struggling to make good out of evil. The things we cherish have their g...