But ‘Paradise Lost’ reshaped English literature. Samuel Johnson quipped that even the admirers of John Milton’s epic never wished it ‘longer than it is.’ ... A War Over Heaven and Hell.

This Sunday we explored what Jesus called paradise. It is the present heaven and is a place of the Spirit, not a physical place.

In Heaven in the American Imagination (Oxford University Press), Gary Scott Smith surveys the vast landscape of religion in the United States, showing how changing historical circumstances have ...

A 10,000-line blank verse retelling of Satan’s rebellion against God, the subsequent war in heaven and the temptation of the first couple in the Garden of Eden, “Paradise Lost” is a ...