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The Forgotten Heavens: Six Essays on Cosmology
by
Douglas Wilson (Goodreads Author),
Terry Morin, Wilson Evan
Paperback, 128 pages
Published
February 9th 2010
by Canon Press
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The Forgotten Heavens is a hard book to review. On the one hand, I love gnosis, arcane knowledge, and it’s about time that someone actually took a clear-headed Protestant look at what the Bible has to say about the unseen world. On the other hand, some of what this book says is just not supported enough to be more than a nice theory. In summary, I guess, the fact that this book is so very slender (124 pages) demonstrates how little information we’re actually dealing with here, and what very few...more
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An intriguing book.
A mixture of insightful and strained interpretation of Scripture.
Strengths
- lots of Biblical texts cited
- main thesis is sound: angels and spirits are real and our modernism leads us to distort the text, ruling out the possibility of actual activity and intervention on their part in our world and lives.
Weaknesses
- the essays seemed scattered and not very coherent. Maybe because of the partial and fleeting knowledge we are given.
- there is some reliance on extra-Biblical source...more
A mixture of insightful and strained interpretation of Scripture.
Strengths
- lots of Biblical texts cited
- main thesis is sound: angels and spirits are real and our modernism leads us to distort the text, ruling out the possibility of actual activity and intervention on their part in our world and lives.
Weaknesses
- the essays seemed scattered and not very coherent. Maybe because of the partial and fleeting knowledge we are given.
- there is some reliance on extra-Biblical source...more
Have you ever seen a movie after which you walked away thinking how great a movie it could have been based on what story the director was trying to tell, but knowing the movie wasn't that great because he didn't succeed in telling it well?
That is how I feel about this book.
Forgotten Heavens is a book that could've been great. The questions that the essay authors are raising are great questions. After reading the book, however, I felt like too much was left unanswered. They told me that things l...more
That is how I feel about this book.
Forgotten Heavens is a book that could've been great. The questions that the essay authors are raising are great questions. After reading the book, however, I felt like too much was left unanswered. They told me that things l...more
Well. First off, this book is hard to review, as it is a collection of six essays from six authors on six different subjects, but here goes.
Evan Wilson's was most definitely the most unusual and paradigmatic, and I think I mean that in a good way, but I really couldn't say with any level of certainty. It was more foreign than anything I've read since I picked up my Hebrew Psalter (though it was very clearly and coherently written). It discusses the offices of angels (those that have fallen, thos...more
Evan Wilson's was most definitely the most unusual and paradigmatic, and I think I mean that in a good way, but I really couldn't say with any level of certainty. It was more foreign than anything I've read since I picked up my Hebrew Psalter (though it was very clearly and coherently written). It discusses the offices of angels (those that have fallen, thos...more
Doug Wilson and others turned their presentations at a conference into a short book that tries to explain the universe as the Bible depicts it. There are chapters on celestial beings (cherubim, seraphim, orphanim, and living ones from Ezekiel and Revelation), "the governing princes" (principalities), divination and witchcraft, and other things that don't fit into a naturalistic worldview.
The best chapter, in my view, was Doug Wilson's called "The Heavens, Hades, & Man Between," which describ...more
The best chapter, in my view, was Doug Wilson's called "The Heavens, Hades, & Man Between," which describ...more
These are some of the most interesting essays I've read about cosmology (the study of physical and in this case spiritual) structure of the universe. Each essay is by a different writer and some are much better than others. The best essays are in the beginning of the book but each one presents ideas that make one think. Since the essays attempt to view cosmology from a biblical perspective, the work is even more enlightening. You won't agree with all you read, but you will be challenged.
It's been a while since I read this book. I read the older edition that Canon first put out. There's some good food for thought in here. Wilson definitely takes a more medieval approach to cosmology. It was kind of like reading Lewis' Space Trilogy as if he was trying to present a genuine attempt at a biblical cosmology. Maybe he was.
Read others reviews and don't agree that the essays are lacking in biblical evidence; on the contrary, many have ample scripture references from more than one language. Also, a great deal of historical reference. I enjoyed the essays for many reasons but they all helped me to understand Tolkien's and Lewis' writings more.
A mixed bag. Three or four of the essays went too far, it seemed to me, in leaning on mythology and rabbinical legends to establish various things. Wilson's assumption that the Nephilim were angel-man half breeds again rears its head in this book. Nonetheless, the first two and the last two essays remained phenomenal, discussing satyrs, lilth, and dragons in the Bible. A lot of helpful stuff here.
A very intriguing read, bringing in many foreign concepts to the modern mind. Things often thought by us to be fantasy or mythology iare examined from a biblical historical use and application. Honestly, if what this book portrays is literally real, it drastically changeable our understandings of the ancient world and spirit realm. I think a lot of it make sense though. Well worth the read no matter what your final conclusion is.
How easily we explain away mysterious or strange things in Scripture, how easily we assume that a more rational interpretation must be made to fit in with our limited cosmology! These essays unashamedly attempt to look at the ‘stranger parts’ and subjects of Scripture without a post-Enlightenment mind. There is something fresh and stimulating and faith-strengthening in this, even if one reserves judgment on the actual explanations ventured.
It should get four stars for pure enjoyment as a read; I...more
It should get four stars for pure enjoyment as a read; I...more
I felt the earth move under my feet, I felt the sky come tumbling down, tumbling down.
Set of essays on angels, demons, and cosmology... interesting. I shall return to it.
All of these essays are quite fun to read, a few lack biblical evidence.
This gets five stars if only for Doug Wilson's essay, "The Heavens, Hades, and Man Between."
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