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Hell: The word conjures up terrifying images of lakes of fire and demons waving pitchforks, of darkness and eternal separation from God. The Bible seems clear on the nature of hell (and who goes there) - but what if we've all been mistaken? At the intersection of Biblical truth and popular imagination, Jon Sweeney guides us through one of the greatest mysteries of our time, one that will challenge everything we think we know about hell, heaven, and God's design for our lives here on earth. With gripping narrative and rock solid scholarship, Sweeney charts the "evolution" of hell through history and literature, taking us through the Old Testament Sheol (the dusty "underworld" where all souls travelled) to the dark reaches of Virgil's Aeneid, from Ovid's bizarre Metamorphoses to the greatest influencer of our modern "version" of hell: Dante's dark epic Inferno. He demonstrates that our understanding of hell is based more on Dante's imagination than on Biblical truth - but in the process, he reconstructs what the Bible really says about heaven and hell, giving us a clearer, more hopeful understanding of the afterlife than ever before. Powerful and intriguing, Sweeney will forever alter what we think about happens to us after we die - and, more importantly, he will make us reconsider how we live.

About the Author :
Jon M. Sweeney is an independent scholar, culture critic, and popular speaker with 25 years of experience in spirituality trade publishing. Raised a fundamentalist Protestant, today Jon is a Catholic who prefers a monastic-style practice.

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Sweeney uncovers a tangle of mysteries. - Booklist starred review (for The Pope Who Quit) Sweeney is very even-handed when addressing some of the more controversial Catholic beliefs about Mary-his prose comes across as earnest and respectful, while remaining informed and unafraid of critique. - Publishers Weekly, (for Strange Heaven)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781455582242
  • Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
  • Publisher Imprint: FaithWords
  • Height: 201 mm
  • No of Pages: 208
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 181 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1455582247
  • Publisher Date: 17 Jun 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Dante, the Bible and Eternal Torment
  • Width: 132 mm


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