Extra ecclesiam nulla salus Posted April 13, 2005 Author Share Posted April 13, 2005 Does the Catholic church actually believe that hell is the lake of Fire and sulfur with eternal punishment. Or is a place (like Limbo) with eternal seperation from God and torment? anyone know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Eremite Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 [quote name='Extra ecclesiam nulla salus' date='Apr 13 2005, 06:39 PM'] Does the Catholic church actually believe that hell is the lake of Fire and sulfur with eternal punishment. Or is a place (like Limbo) with eternal seperation from God and torment? anyone know? [/quote] We don't know. There will be bodies in hell, so it is very likely that there is a literal fire that rages but does not consume. Or fire can just represent the eternal torment of conscience. I don't know, and I don't want to find out. St. Don Bosco relates in one of his dreams how he came upon a solid metal wall, and put his hand to it, and his hand was scorched. And an angel told him there were 1,000 such walls between that point and the center of hell, and each wall was 1000 measures apart from one another. If his hand was burned that far away, imagine how hot the center is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Eremite Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 (edited) When I read Inferno, I used this version: [url="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=T28hafHBTe&isbn=0451628047&itm=6"]http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearc...451628047&itm=6[/url] I like it because it has notes which explain stuff you probably don't know (such as concealed papal allusions). My favorite part of Inferno is the end, when he describes Satan chomping on Brutus, Cassius, and Judas. Freaky stuff, to say the least. Edited April 13, 2005 by Eremite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazz4jesus Posted April 14, 2005 Share Posted April 14, 2005 (edited) [quote name='bookwyrm' date='Apr 13 2005, 05:12 PM'] A one of the English teachers at my school had her students do a project after they read the Inferno - they had to write about a person they knew who they would put in hell and why (because that's basically what Dante did, put all the people he didn't like in hell). Can you say CREEPY? [/quote] At my school they had to set up a modern Inferno. not write it out but decide where sins were placed what sufferings and who would be in there. Me and my friends like stiring up our classmates (like in a paper i had to write after reading A Modest Proposal, I basicly attacked a few students that were disrespectful to the teacher). What she did was one by one place her classmates in hell, and yes she presented it. hehehe she is even more teacher pet than me and really dislikes everybody in her class Edited April 14, 2005 by Jazz4jesus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philothea Posted April 14, 2005 Share Posted April 14, 2005 [quote name='Extra ecclesiam nulla salus' date='Apr 13 2005, 05:14 PM'] yeah its written in Itialian. [/quote] The reason I wondered is because I have been told by Italians that their language was not standardized until modern times. I did some research and it seems that what Dante wrote (Tuscan with some Sicilian) turned into modern Italian because everyone read the Commedia! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FutureSoror Posted April 14, 2005 Share Posted April 14, 2005 [quote name='cmotherofpirl' date='Apr 12 2005, 07:41 PM'] [url="http://web.eku.edu/flash/inferno/"]http://web.eku.edu/flash/inferno/[/url] [/quote] That is awesome! How did I not find that when I was doing papers and powerpoint presentations for the Inferno?! When we read it my teacher put "Abandon all hope ye who enter here" above the door to our class.. Now we are doing the Paradiso. The Divine Comedy is a poem, but an [i]extremely[/i] good one. Dante knew what he was talking about. An important thing about it, though, is that it is not literal. It is extremely deep, and greatly allegorical, especially with the Paradiso. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrndveritatis Posted April 14, 2005 Share Posted April 14, 2005 Have you guys ever heard of Dr. Ralph McInerny? He writes Catholic fiction and writes for Crisis Magazine. I am taking his class next fall entitled "Dante and Aquinas." It should be awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FutureSoror Posted April 14, 2005 Share Posted April 14, 2005 [quote name='jrndveritatis' date='Apr 13 2005, 11:10 PM'] Have you guys ever heard of Dr. Ralph McInerny? He writes Catholic fiction and writes for Crisis Magazine. I am taking his class next fall entitled "Dante and Aquinas." It should be awesome. [/quote] Ooh sounds interesting. From the little I've read, I know Dante was influenced by the Summa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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