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The Concept of Heaven

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2010

Ninian Smart
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My title is in a way misleading, for I want to show that there is a number of concepts of heaven. I want to explore these in the first part of this lecture. In the second part I shall comment on most ofthem, to see which, ifany, seem to be viable.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 2 , March 1968 , pp. 226 - 238
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1968

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page 229 note 1 A fuller exposition of this concept of transcendence is to be found in my article ‘Myth and Transcendence’ in The Monist (October, 1966).