Hell

• Catechism of the Catholic Church

  • hell is a real eternal state
  • eternal separation
• Origen - Hell as a spiritual state

  • ‘punishment is not inflicted by God … each persons internal anguish‘
  • not a permanent state
  • separation from God
• Dante - Hell as an actual state

  • no escape and no redemption
  • created at the moment of Jesus’ death
• C.S Lewis - Hell as a symbol

  • to be in hell means to be forever cut-off from God’s presence, eternally unable to know God’s love and mercy, fire symbolises this
  • God as the judge is a visual metaphor