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  • This is what theologians have called the Beatific Vision: the fullest experience of heaven is the intuitive and unobstructed knowledge of God as he is—that is, to behold God face-to-face.

    Homeward bound Fr Timothy Matkin 2007

  • This is what theologians have called the Beatific Vision: the fullest experience of heaven is the intuitive and unobstructed knowledge of God as he is—that is, to behold God face-to-face.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2007

  • But according to the Berg curator, Isaac Gewirtz, who has spent two years studying the pre - and post-scroll drafts and has written a book on the subject called Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac on the Road, to be published this fall as a companion to an exhibition at the New York Public Library, Jack's first attempts were so ambitious and the characters so laden with symbolism "that the drafts kept collapsing under their own weight."

    Kerouac Unbound Johnson, Joyce 2007

  • Diaries, manuscripts, snapshots, and personal items of Jack Kerouac, the visionary author whose pioneering work helped to established the Beat Movement in the United States, will be on display in Beatific Souls: Jack Kerouac's On the Road, 1957 - 2007, an exhibition on view at The New York Public Library September 28, 2007 through February 10, 2008.

    March 2007 2007

  • Diaries, manuscripts, snapshots, and personal items of Jack Kerouac, the visionary author whose pioneering work helped to established the Beat Movement in the United States, will be on display in Beatific Souls: Jack Kerouac's On the Road, 1957 - 2007, an exhibition on view at The New York Public Library September 28, 2007 through February 10, 2008.

    Kerouac at the New York Public Library 2007

  • Diaries, manuscripts, snapshots, and personal items of Jack Kerouac, the visionary author whose pioneering work helped to established the Beat Movement in the United States, will be on display in Beatific Souls: Jack Kerouac's On the Road, 1957-2007, an exhibition on view at The New York Public Library September 28, 2007 through February 10, 2008.

    March 2007 2007

  • The show called "Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac On The Road" is more like a archive of mid-20th century literary culture.

    On the Road...Again Shelfari 2008

  • Perhaps in the mansions of Limbo the heroes enjoy some such compensation for their loss of the Beatific Vision; perhaps the Beatific Vision itself has some remote kinship with this lowly experience; I, at any rate, believed myself very near heaven, during those languid days at Brideshead.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Annette 2008

  • The liturgy is the embodiment of the Catholic faith and a reflection of the Beatific Vision...

    Our Liturgical Heritage de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • The show called "Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac On The Road" is more like a archive of mid-20th century literary culture.

    Shelfari: Shelfari 2008

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