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Punishment of the Wicked
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Year: 2017 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Great Neck Publishing,

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Within the walls of hell
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ISBN: 1283412810 9786613412812 9956726923 9956726796 9956726109 9789956726103 9789956726790 9956726532 9789956726530 Year: 2011 Publisher: Bamenda, Cameroon Langaa Research & Publishing CIG

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The Land of Eternal Discomfort is a place where no one wants to go. It is hot and dirty. One is sure to experience depression once there and sleep is a luxury no longer attainable in that place. Unbelievable though it may seem one enters the Land of Eternal Discomfort by choice. It is a place destined for those who did not live a righteous life according to the Creator. The kind of life one lives down below determines where they go thereafter. For the seven characters in this play, the love of power and the hatred for those different and inferior to themselves leads them to choose a life of lu


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Hell and its rivals : death and retribution among Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the early Middle Ages
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ISBN: 1501712489 9781501712487 9781501712494 1501712497 9781501707803 1501707809 9781501707803 Year: 2017 Publisher: Ithaca, New York ; London, [England] : Cornell University Press,

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The idea of punishment after death-whereby the souls of the wicked are consigned to Hell (Gehenna, Gehinnom, or Jahannam)-emerged out of beliefs found across the Mediterranean, from ancient Egypt to Zoroastrian Persia, and became fundamental to the Abrahamic religions. Once Hell achieved doctrinal expression in the New Testament, the Talmud, and the Qur'an, thinkers began to question Hell's eternity, and to consider possible alternatives-hell's rivals. Some imagined outright escape, others periodic but temporary relief within the torments. One option, including Purgatory and, in the Eastern Orthodox tradition, the Middle State, was to consider the punishments to be temporary and purifying. Despite these moral and theological hesitations, the idea of Hell has remained a historical and theological force until the present.In Hell and Its Rivals, Alan E. Bernstein examines an array of sources from within and beyond the three Abrahamic faiths-including theology, chronicles, legal charters, edifying tales, and narratives of near-death experiences-to analyze the origins and evolution of belief in Hell. Key social institutions, including slavery, capital punishment, and monarchy, also affected the afterlife beliefs of Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Reflection on hell encouraged a stigmatization of "the other" that in turn emphasized the differences between these religions. Yet, despite these rivalries, each community proclaimed eternal punishment and answered related challenges to it in similar terms. For all that divided them, they agreed on the need for-and fact of-Hell.


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Purgatory : Philosophical Dimensions
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ISBN: 331957891X 3319578901 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book examines the concept of Purgatory. However, in contradistinction to the many monographs and edited volumes published in the past 50 years devoted to historical, cultural, or theological treatments of Purgatory—especially in proportion to the voluminous output on Heaven and Hell—this collection features papers by philosophers and other scholars engaged specifically in philosophical argument, debate, and dialogue involving conceptions of Purgatory and related ideas. It exists to broaden the discussion beyond the prevailing trends in the academic literature and fills an important intellectual gap.


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Heaven's purge : purgatory in late antiquity
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ISBN: 9780199736041 0199736049 0199375011 0199780404 0199894620 9780199780402 9780199375011 0190453729 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York, New York : Oxford University Press,

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This book traces purgatory's roots in the texts and debates of late antiquity. Illuminating the varied perspectives on post-mortem purgation in late antiquity, Moreira challenges the conclusions of recent scholarship through an examination of the texts, communities and cultural ideas that informed purgatory's early history.

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ISBN: 9786612071973 1282071971 025310968X 9780253109682 9780253341983 0253341981 9780253215741 0253215749 9781282071971 0253341981 0253215749 6612071974 Year: 2003 Publisher: Bloomington Indiana University Press

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Is there really a God, and if so, what is God actually like? Is there an afterlife, and if so, is there such a thing as eternal punishment for unrepentant sinners, as many orthodox Christians and Muslims believe? And is it really true that our unconscious minds are connected to a higher spiritual reality, and if so, could this higher spiritual reality be the very same thing that religionists call ""God""? In his latest book, Raymond M. Smullyan invites the reader to explore some beautiful and some horr


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Greek heroes in and out of Hades
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ISBN: 1282134019 9786613806598 0739144995 9780739144992 9780739144978 0739144979 073919285X 9781282134010 6613806595 Year: 2012 Publisher: Lanham

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Greek Heroes in and out of Hades is a study on heroism and mortality from Homer to Plato. Through systematic readings of a wide range of ancient Greek texts, Stamatia Dova offers innovative hermeneutic approaches to heroic character and a comprehensive overview of the theme of descent to the underworld in the Iliad and the Odyssey, Bacchylides 5, Plato's


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St Augustine's Doctrine of Eternal Punishment
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ISBN: 0773417362 9780773417366 9780773436763 0773436766 Year: 2010 Publisher: Lewiston Edwin Mellen Press

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The thesis of this work is that Augustine's doctrine of eternal punishment is not the result of his employment of the Platonic concept of the immortal and divine soul but the product of his theological conviction, based on sound exegetical conclusions, that the Bible clearly teaches the eternity of hell.


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Locating Hell in Islamic traditions
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ISBN: 9789004301214 9789004301368 9004301364 9004301216 Year: 2016 Volume: 119 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Brill

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Islam is often seen as a religious tradition in which hell does not play a particularly prominent role. This volume challenges this hackneyed view. Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions is the first book-length analytic study of the Muslim hell. It maps out a broad spectrum of Islamic attitudes toward hell, from the Quranic vision(s) of hell to the pious cultivation of the fear of the afterlife, theological speculations, metaphorical and psychological understandings, and the modern transformations of hell. Contributors: Frederick Colby, Daniel de Smet, Christiane Gruber, Jon Hoover, Mohammad Hassan Khalil, Christian Lange, Christopher Melchert, Simon O’Meara, Samuela Pagani, Tommaso Tesei, Roberto Tottoli, Wim Raven, and Richard van Leeuwen.


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Waarom de hel naar zwavel stinkt : mythologie en geologie van de onderwereld
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ISBN: 9789045018768 Year: 2011 Publisher: Amsterdam Atlas

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De aarde is de onderwereld, het dodenrijk, de hel, in bijna alle culturen van de wereld. In het aardedonker worden wij bang en denken aan de dood. En toch zit er zoveel moois in de ondergrond: glinsterende ertsen en metalen, prachtige gele zwavelkorsten, meterslange vlijmscherpe gipskristallen, druipsteengrotten, tere schelpjes uit het begin van de evolutie en reusachtige botten van uitgestorven monsters. Salomon Kroonenberg doet met hamer en kompas geologisch veldwerk in de hel, in het spoor van de Bijbel, Homerus, Vergilius, Dante, Da Vinci, Descartes, Jules Verne en de moderne wetenschap, in elk hoofdstuk weer een stukje dieper. Hij laat ons zien dat de aarde haar eigen geschiedenisboek is. Zo leren we dat we de ondergrond niet langer moeten zien als een black box om tunnels in te graven, als een supermarkt voor grondstoffen, als een tapijt om afval onder te vegen, of als laatste rustplaats voor de doden, maar veeleer als een onvervangbaar archief, en als een levend ecoxysteem waarvan we nog maar nauwelijks de rijkdom hebben kunnen peilen.

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