Sweet and Blessed Country: The Christian Hope for Heaven

by John Saward

Book Overview

In Sweet and Blessed Country, John Saward takes an altarpiece from fifteenth-century Provence as his starting-point for a theological exposition of the Christian hope for Heaven. The altarpiece, Enguerrand Quarton's Coronation of the Virgin, was painted for Carthusian monastery, and so it is monastic theologians, principally Denys the Carthusian, who guide Saward in his exploration of the "sweet and blessed country" in which the angels and saints...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199543666
• ISBN13: 9780199543663
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 7.9"