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Article: Hell's sober comeback: three out of 5 Americans now believe in Hades, but their views on damnation differ sharply. Theologians are struggling to explain these infernal images. (Cover Story)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- March 25, 1991
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Three out of 5 Americans now believe in Hades, but their views on damnation differ sharply. Theologians are struggling to explain these infernal images.
It is the horrifying flipside of heavenly Paradise, a place of endless torment, a fiery abyss to be shunned by prudent seekers of religious piety. Hell is every believer's worst nightmare. And its presence is being felt more acutely today than it has in decades.
Long before Jonathan Edwards struck primordial fear into the hearts of 18th-century New Englanders with his sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," the blazing imagery of an infernal netherworld haunted the religious conscience. Indeed, ...
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