The Pleasure of Hell in 'City of God 21'
Augustine counters the Neoplatonic and Origenian notion of a purifying or corrective hell at the same time is at pains to represent Hell (Civ. 21, 1; 21, 9) as part of the aessthetically pleasing symmetry of a divinely ordered universe, a res mirabilis rather than a res horribilis.
Author: | Thomas A. Smith |
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Published: |
1999
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Volume: | 30 |
Pages: | 195-204 |
Periodical: | Augustinian Studies |
Number: | 2 |
Format: | Article |
Topic: | -
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