Most evangelical Christians believe that those people who are not saved before they die will be punished in hell forever. But is this what the Bible truly teaches? Do Christians need to rethink their understanding of hell? In the late twentieth century, a growing number of evang…
Focusing on visual sources and the cultural landscape, Kersti Markus offers a fresh perspective on the Baltic crusades in Visual Culture and Politics in the Baltic Sea Region, 1100-1250 . The book examines how visual propaganda was used by the Danish rulers as an instrument in e…
Expectations of Justice in the Age of Augustine examines the complex and varying roles Christian bishops played during late antiquity and how their experiences fundamentally affected Christian ideals of divine justice.
"Shows how Milton, Hobbes, and other seventeenth-century English writers used expectation of the world's end to invent new and radical ideas of the nation"--
Gregory the Great : order in chaos -- Inner death : hell in the conscience -- The punishments : slavery, torture, and hell -- Exceptions to hell : relief and escape -- Calibrated justice and purgatorial fire -- Visions : rights to souls -- Rabbinic Judaism -- Byzantine universal…
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…
Die Apokalypse des Johannes ist das rätselhafteste und bilderreichste Buch der Bibel. Sie beflügelte die Imagination vieler Künstler zwischen Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit. Dieser grossartig bebilderte Band erhellt Geschichte, Theologie und Bedeutung der Apokalypse. Der Bogen s…
Im "europäischen Krisenjahrhundert" zwischen dem frühen 14. und dem 15. Jh. gerieten in zeitgenössischer Wahrnehmung auch alltägliche Lebensbereiche aus dem Gleichgewicht. Seit dem 13. Jh. verstärkt in Lateineuropa aufgekommene Bedürfnisse, sich mit Lebenssinn und Ewigkeitshoffn…
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"Few subjects in Christianity have inspired artists as much as the Last Judgment. Last Judgment Iconography in the Carpathians examines over 100 images of the Last Judgment, with an emphasis on those from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth century, in the Carpathian Mountai…
"Few subjects in Christianity have inspired artists as much as the Last Judgment. Last Judgment Iconography in the Carpathians examines over 100 images of the Last Judgment, with an emphasis on those from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth century, in the Carpathian mountai…
