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Chargement... The Penguin Book of Hellpar Scott G. Bruce (Directeur de publication)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This works better as an audiobook than you might expect. It traces Christians' fascination with imagining all the suffering god will inflict on those who don't believe in him, conceptions which show the true sickness of the Christian mind. Not satisfied with creating hell as a concept, however, Christians have also tried to create it on Earth, with the very Christian Nazis being a good example. The visions of hell presented here would be amusing and laughable if not for the human failings and hatred they represent. ( ) Venturing into something different than my usual. I saw this on the shelf of my local library and thought it would make for an interesting read. It's weird to see how hung up on hell we still are. I didn't realize it was so prevalent in our vernacular, even with the small things, like "it's hot as hell". Interesting read. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"From the Hebrew Bible's shadowy realm of Sheol to twenty-first-century visions of Hell on earth, The Penguin Book of Hell takes us through three thousand years of eternal damnation. Along the way, you'll take a ferry ride with Aeneas to Hades, across the river Acheron; meet the Devil as imagined by a twelfth-century Irish monk--a monster with a thousand giant hands; wander the nine circles of Hell in Dante's Inferno, in which gluttons, liars, heretics, murderers, and hypocrites are made to endure crime-appropriate torture; and witness the debates that raged in Victorian England when new scientific advances cast doubt on the idea of an eternal hereafter. Drawing upon religious poetry, epics, theological treatises, stories of miracles, and accounts of saints' lives, this fascinating volume of hellscapes illuminates how Hell has long haunted us, in both life and death."--Page 4 of cover. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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