Grounded in Heaven Recentering Christian Hope and Life on God

<div><p>Eschatology and ethics are joined at the hip, says Michael Allen, and both need theocentric reorientation. In <i>Grounded in Heaven </i>Allen retrieves the traditional concept of the beatific vision and seeks to bring Christ back into the heart of our theology and our lives on earth.</p><p>Responding to the earthly-mindedness of much recent theology, Allen places his focus on God and the heavenly future while also appreciating ways in which the Reformed tradition provides a unique angle on broadly catholic concerns. Reaching back to classical ethics as well as its reformation by Calvin and other Reformed theologians, <i>Grounded in Heaven </i>offers a distinctly Protestant account of the ascetical calling to be heavenly-minded and to deny one’s self.</p></div>