books on heaven / new creation

[Scott]

Can anyone recommend and reformed works on (1) what heaven will be like, or (2) what the new heavens and earth will be like? Thanks

 

[TimeRedeemer]

I havn't read it, but Randy Alcorn's Heaven has received reviews saying it's surprisingly Reformed. I've read parts of it while standing in a bookstore and actually wanted to buy it, but other purchases called.

 

[C. Matthew McMahon]

I've heard this one is fantastic:

http://www.puritanpublications.com/Books/EternityWeighed.htm



There is a chapter on the Biblical Doctrine of heaven.

Others that are excellent:

Edward Donnelly, Heaven and Hell
Thomas Brooks, Heaven On Earth
J.C. Ryle, Heaven
Richard Alleine , Heaven Opened
John Gerstner , Jonathan Edwards on Heaven and Hell
Matthew Mead, A Name in Heaven the Truest Ground of Joy
Robert Bolton, The Four Last things
Christopher Love, The Works of Christopher Love, volume 1 - he has a series of sermons on heaven which is very good.

[Edited on 1-30-2006 by C. Matthew McMahon]

 

[Scott]

Thanks

 

[TimeRedeemer]

The book I'm reading now - Boston's Human Nature in its Fourfold State - has a lengthy chapter on the Kingdom of Heaven.

I think Thomas Watson is particularly evocative and perhaps bolder in his descriptions than other theologians in his discourses on heaven and glorified saints. His Body of Divinity in the last three chapters covers this.