Join us (outside! in person!) to discuss Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife by Bart D. Ehrman. We will meet at the Willow Bay Parking lot and find a picnic table. We’ll be following CDC guidelines - if you are fully vaccinated you don’t need to wear a mask. Hope to see you there!
About the book, from Simon and Schuster:
A New York Times bestselling historian of early Christianity takes on two of the most gripping questions of human existence: where did the ideas of heaven and hell come from and why do they endure?
Related videos:
5 Things You Didn't Know About Heaven and Hell from February 2020
Bart Ehrman's Personal Beliefs Interview recorded at the Freedom From Religion Foundation conference in 2014
Misquoting Jesus in the Bible - Professor Bart D. Ehrman lecture recorded at Stanford University in 2007
…One of Ehrman’s startling conclusions is that there never was a single Greek, Jewish, or Christian understanding of the afterlife, but numerous competing views. Moreover, these views did not come from nowhere; they were intimately connected with the social, cultural, and historical worlds out of which they emerged. Only later, in the early Christian centuries, did they develop into notions of eternal bliss or damnation widely accepted today.