A match made in hell: Luther and Calvin on the descensus ad inferos
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DOI: 10.1017/s0036930625101075
Abstract: Abstract Contrary to longstanding opinion, it was Luther, not Calvin, who first interpreted Christ’s descent into hell as an event of suffering and feeling forsaken by God. Though Lutheran tradition afterward emphasised a victorious interpretation… read more here.
Keywords: made hell; hell; hell luther; luther calvin ... See more keywords
Hell as education: From place to state of being? Hell, Hades, Tartarus, Gehinnom
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DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2019.1675470
Abstract: ‘And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, some to shame and everlasting contempt’. (Daniel 12:2) The word ‘Hell’ is derived from an Anglo-Saxon wo... read more here.
Keywords: hell education; hell; state hell; hell hades ... See more keywords
Damned Nation: Hell in America from the Revolution to Reconstruction
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DOI: 10.1080/14664658.2019.1678824
Abstract: As a social, political, and historical phenomenon – as opposed to a purely theological one – arguing about hell has always been a great American pastime, arising from the intertwining of American e... read more here.
Keywords: america revolution; revolution reconstruction; hell america; hell ... See more keywords