Between Heaven and Hell (novel)
- Between Heaven and Hell (novel)
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name = Between Heaven and Hell
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author = Peter Kreeft
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Christian novel
publisher = InterVarsity Press (US)
release_date = 1982
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media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 115 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-87784-389-9
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"Between Heaven and Hell" is a fiction novel by Peter Kreeft about American President John F. Kennedy, and authors C.S. Lewis ("The Chronicles of Narnia") and Aldous Huxley ("Brave New World") meeting in Purgatory and engaging in a philosophical discussion on faith. It was inspired by the fact that all three men died on November 22, 1963. We see from the three points of view: Kennedy's "humanist" or "modern Christian" view, Lewis's "conservative Christian" or "mere Christian" view, and Huxley's "Orientalized Christian" view. The book progresses as Lewis and Kennedy discuss Jesus' being God incarnate, to Lewis and Huxley discussing whether or not Jesus was a "deity" or "just a good person."
The Great Conversation
The Great Conversation is a concept partially born out of Kreeft's novel. For the most part, it is an idea put forth by various Catholic apologists like Kreeft whereby all people in purgatory will naturally converse with each other so as to ascertain where they are and how they got there. The best way to think of it according to Kreeft is a large social gathering in which every participant has, almost invariably, the exact same questions on his or her mind. [Peter Kreeft, "Between Heaven and Hell" (Downers Grove,IL: InterVarsity Press, 1982), 7.]
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