Heaven - Randy Alcorn

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Title: Heaven
Author: Randy Alcorn
Genre: Christian non-fiction
Rating: 3/5
# pages: 457
Date read: July 2007, March 2021

What will heaven be like? Randy Alcorn presents a thoroughly biblical answer, based on years of careful study, presented in an engaging, reader-friendly style. His conclusions will surprise readers and stretch their thinking about this important subject. Heaven will inspire readers to long for heaven while they're living on earth.


zoies recommended that I read this one. When I first read this back in 2007, it was the first book I read on the topic of Heaven, and as such I found it extremely interesting and thought-provoking. This time around I was less impressed, and had to downgrade the rating from 4 to 3 stars.

Randy Alcorn does forth a lot of interesting theories, but while there were a few I hadn't thought of before (like the idea of an intermediate Heaven where believers go between the time they die and the bodily resurrection to the New Earth), most I either felt were obvious (to me, at least), or I felt he drew broader conclusions than the Scripture allows. I'm still glad I've read it, and it did make me long for Heaven, but I'd no longer recommend it unreservedly, and am very unlikely to reread it a second time.