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Louis-Patrick Bergot, Apocalypse et littérature au Moyen Âge. Réception de l’imaginaire apocalyptique dans la littérature française des xiie et xiiie siècles

Perspectives Médiévales, 2021
Of the many apocalypses composed during Judeo-Christian antiquity, only the Apocalypse of John and the Apocalypse of Paul (through the intermediary of the Vision of Saint Paul) have benefited from translations into Old French.
Louis-Patrick Bergot
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Contemporary Shifts in the Christian Doctrine of Hell in Anglo-American Philosophical Theology [PDF]

Religious Inquiries, 2015
This problem of hell is a specific form of the problem of evil. The possibility that perhaps a great number of people will end up in an eternal hell is a problem for the Christian who also confesses faith in an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent ...
Ramon Baker
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Hell

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, 2023
In contemporary English, ‘hell’ is almost always used to refer either literally or metaphorically to a place of post-mortem punishment. However, in a longer perspective, the term was once commonly used to allude to the underworld more generally.
David Brown
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Go and Sin No More: The Afterlife as Moral Teaching in Italian Catholic Educational Theatre

Religions, 2019
Catholic religious orders that have education as part of their mission have often used visions of the afterlife in theatre productions as vehicles to transmit a message of conversion, especially to those who, because of age or illiteracy, would not ...
Daniela Cavallaro
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Skica kristološko-trinitarne hermeneutike pakla i dužnosti nade u spas svih ljudi u misli H. U. von Balthasara

Diacovensia, 2018
It seems that the last great truly theological discussion was conducted around the thesis of the Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar on the hope for salvation of all people.
Boris Vulić
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Escaping from Confinement: Hell Imagery in the Shōjuraigōji Rokudō-e Scrolls

Arts
This article explores the pictorial representation of the Buddhist hell in Kamakura (1185–1333) Japan, with a focus on a mid-thirteenth century rokudō-e, or Pictures of the Six Realms, preserved at Shōjuraigōji Temple. The examination revolves around how
Zhenru Zhou
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The emotional toll of hell: cross-national and experimental evidence for the negative well-being effects of hell beliefs. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Though beliefs in Heaven and Hell are related, they are associated with different personality characteristics and social phenomena. Here we present three studies measuring Heaven and Hell beliefs' associations with and impact on subjective well-being. We
Azim F Shariff, Lara B Aknin
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The Biblical Underworld about Purgatory: Sheol – a New Approach

Bogoslovska Smotra, 2023
»He punishes us; then he shows us mercy. He sends us down to the world of the dead, then he brings us up from the grave« (Tob 13:2). The Old and New Testament theology of Sheol (hereinafter šeᵓôl) follows the logical sequence of human life and death. Man
Dubravko Turalija
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Displacing the Christian Theodicy of Hell: Yi Kwangsu’s Search for the Willful Individual in Colonial Modernity

Religions
This article aims to offer Yi Kwangsu’s The Heartless (Mujŏng, 1917), the first modern Korean novel, as an emblem of hybrid religiosity in colonial modernity that sheds light on an ambivalent alterity in the problem of hell in non-Western cultures.
Jun-Hyeok Kwak, Mengxiao Huang
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The Last Judgment

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, 2023
The last judgment is widely understood in Christianity as something which will take place in the eschata or eschaton (sometimes called ‘the end times’), with only marginal significance for everyday life. A closer look reveals this notion to be misguided.
Markus Mühling
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