A Meditation on Hell: Lessons from Dante.
This essay borrows Dante's inspiration in the Inferno to explore a theology of hell. The usual apologies for hell either bank on a retributive paradigm of justice or are content to have hell introduce a note of tragedy into the history of redemption. The theology that is culled from Dante, and espec...
| Publicado en: | Modern Theology Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 375 - 395 |
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