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335 W. Graham Scroggie,
What about Heaven?
(London: Christian Literature Crusade, 1940), 93—95.

336 A. W. Tozer,
The Size of the Soul
(Harrisburg, Pa.: Christian Publications, 1992), 17—18.

337 C. S. Lewis,
The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader"
(New York: Scholastic, 1952), 24.

338 Ibid., 180.

339 Variously attributed to Henry Scott Holland and Henry Van Dyke; source uncertain.

340 C. S. Lewis,
Letters to an American Lady
(Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1967), 117.

341 Calvin Miller,
The Divine Symphony
(Minneapolis: Bethany, 2000), 139.

CHAPTER 46

ANTICIPATING THE GREAT ADVENTURE

342 Jack MacArthur,
Exploring in the Next World
(Minneapolis: Dimension Books, 1967), 16.

343 C. S. Lewis,
The Last Battle
(New York HarperTrophy, 1994), 228.

344 Sir James M. Barrie,
Peter Pan,
in
Peter Pan, and Other Plays
(New York: AMS Press, 1975), 94.

345 Paul Helm,
The Last Things
(Carlisle, Pa.: Banner of Truth, 1989), 10.

346 C. S. Lewis,
Perelandra
(New York: Simon 8c Schuster, 1996), 10.

APPENDIX A

CHRISTOPLATONISM'S FALSE ASSUMPTIONS

347 Luciano Floridi and Gian Paolo Terravecchia, eds.,
The Free On-line Dictionary of Philosophy
(FOLDOP), version 2.4, SWIF,
http://www.swif.uniba.it/lei/foldop
.

348 Plato,
Phaedo,
quoted in Walter A. Elwell, ed.,
Evangelical Dictionary of Theology
(Grand Rapids: Baker, 1984), 859.

349 Arthur E. Travis,
Where on Earth Is Heaven?
(Nashville: Broadman, 1974), 16.

350 James M. Campbell,
Heaven Opened
(New York: Revell, 1924), 114-15.

351 John A. Sarkett, "How Did We Lose the Rest of the Story?" chap. 9 in
After Armageddon: A Bible Study on the World Wide Web,
1996,
http://208.234.11.183/aa/9.shtml
.

352 Leon Morris,
The Book of Revelation: An Introduction and Commentary,
vol. 20, Tyndale New Testament Commentaries, rev. ed. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1987).

353 Leland Ryken, "The Rhetoric of Transcendence," in Wayne Martindale,
ed., Journey to the Celestial City: Glimpses of Heaven from Great Literary Classics
(Chicago: Moody, 1995), 19.

354 C. S. Lewis,
The Screwtape Letters,
rev. ed. (New York: Macmillan, 1982), 41—42.

355 Paul Marshall with Lela Gilbert,
Heaven Is Not My Home: Learning to Live in Gods Creation
(Nashville: Word, 1998), 32-33.

356 Anthony A. Hoekema,
The Bible and the Future
(Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1979), 249.

357 Wayne Grudem,
Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine
(Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1994), 1158-64.

APPENDIX B

LITERAL A N D FIGURATIVE INTERPRETATION

358 Colleen McDannell and Bernhard Lang,
Heaven: A History
(New York: Vintage Books, 1988), 80-81.

359 Ibid., 82-83.

360 Ibid., 84.

361 Ibid., 89.

362 Randy Alcorn, "Additional Thoughts on the Millennium," Eternal Perspective Ministries,
http://www.epm.org/millennium.html
.

363 John Gilmore,
Probing Heaven
(Grand Rapids: Baker, 1991), 114.

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