Envisioning hell as a dungeon of fire with Satan dancing around seems too bizarre, impossible and ungodly, to many men and women. “After all,” many people think, “why would a loving God create such a ...

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A new academic essay argues that the fiery underworld familiar from Dante, TV, and pop culture replaced the Hebrew Bible’s ...

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“‘Paradise Lost’ is, surely, the greatest poem in English,” Alan Jacobs declares in his book on John Milton’s masterpiece, “but it is not lovable.” Few who know the poem would disagree with either ...

Forget, for a moment, the torments of hell depicted on the far side of Hieronymus Bosch’s glorious painting “The Garden of Earthly Delights.” Close your eyes to the sinners being gobbled up by giant ...