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Le diable et l'enfer, au temps de Jésus
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ISBN: 2226022171 9782226022172 Year: 1985 Publisher: Paris : A. Michel,


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Hell and its afterlife : historical and contemporary perspectives.
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ISBN: 9780754667292 0754667294 9781409417514 1409417514 9781315586540 9781317122692 9781317122708 9781138265929 Year: 2010 Publisher: Farnham Ashgate

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The notion of an infernal place of punishment for ""undesired"" elements in human culture and human nature has a long history both as religious idea and as cultural metaphor. This book brings together a wide array of scholars who examine Hell as an idea within the Christian tradition and its ""afterlife"" in historical and contemporary imagination. Leading scholars grapple with the construction and meaning of hell in the past and investigate its modern utility as a means to describe what is perceived as horrific or undesirable in modern culture.

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.

Quel enfer?
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ISBN: 2204049549 9782204049542 Year: 1994 Publisher: Paris Cerf

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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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