What is the basis for a genuinely Christian hope? Dare Christians hope to 'see God face to face,' or will the vision of God remain, in this life and the next, filtered 'through a glass, darkly?' In this remarkable volume, Rowan Greer, who has trained two generations of Yale historians and theologians in early church thought, weaves together history, the theology of Augustine and Gregory of Nyssa, and the literature of John Donne and Jeremy Taylor, to show how Christian hope in the 'there and then' of future life with God influences and the understanding of life here and now. Adult reading.
