Journeys to Heaven and Hell: Tours of the Afterlife in the Early Christian Tradition

Journeys to Heaven and Hell: Tours of the Afterlife in the Early Christian Tradition

A New York Times bestselling scholar’s illuminating exploration of the earliest Christian narrated journeys to heaven and hell

“[An] illuminating deep dive . . . An edifying origin story for contempor…

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