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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 & Pub.,

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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
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ISBN: 1501712489 9781501712487 9781501712494 1501712497 9781501707803 1501707809 9781501707803 Year: 2017 Publisher: Ithaca

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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.

Wealth
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ISBN: 0856687391 0856687383 9780856687396 9780856687389 Year: 2001 Volume: 11 Publisher: Warminster : Aris & Phillips,

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The Garden and the Fire
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ISBN: 0231140843 0231140851 0231511833 9780231140843 9780231511834 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York, NY

Who knows? : a study of religious consciousness
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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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Locating hell in Islamic traditions
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ISBN: 9789004301214 9789004301368 9004301364 9004301216 Year: 2015 Volume: 119 Publisher: 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.

Heaven and Hell in Enlightenment England
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ISBN: 0511584695 0511000154 9780511000157 9780511584695 0521453712 9780521453714 9780521101257 0521101255 Year: 1994 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book examines life after death and changing concepts of heaven and hell in English thought from 1650 to 1750. It explores seventeenth- and eighteenth-century images of the journey of body and soul, from Platonist accounts of pre-existence, the final judgement and beyond into heaven or hell. It discloses a society in which frail and fleeting human life was lived out in the expectation of salvation or damnation, of eternal happiness or eternal torment, of heaven or hell and depicts a world radically different from our own. Drawing on the writings not only of the elite but also of the middling and lower classes, Almond shows how there hovered around images of the afterlife many classical and contemporary debate: free will and predestination, materialism and dualism, religion and science, Catholicism and Protestantism, religious and political radicalism, demonology and witchcraft and so on. The picture which emerges is both representative of the age as a whole and enables us to appreciate more fully contemporary understandings of the meaning of human life and death.


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Enfers et damnations dans le monde hispanique et hispano-américain.
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ISBN: 2130474861 9782130474869 Year: 1996 Publisher: Paris PUF

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St Augustine's Doctrine of Eternal Punishment : His Biblical and Theological Argument
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ISBN: 0773417362 9780773417366 9780773436763 0773436766 Year: 2010 Publisher: Lewiston : The 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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