The Smithsonian African Art Museum’s newest exhibition invites visitors to descend from heaven, through purgatory and into hell. Spanning all four levels of the museum, “The Divine Comedy ...

T.S. Eliot said: “Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.” Hamlet speaks of the afterlife as “the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns ...

Fans traded what felt like modern hell for a fictional ... Regret,” stating, “Heaven’s for those who let go of regret,” encapsulating the journey through Purgatory. As Dante ascends ...

Traditionally, Christians believed that Heaven and ... them forever to Hell, but also that most people are not pure and good enough to go to Heaven straight away. For them, Purgatory is the ...

A. The rewards or punishments appointed for men's souls after the Particular Judgment are Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell. Q. 1379. What is Hell? A. Hell is a state to which the wicked are condemned ...

Dante Alighieri became an icon of western literature with his writing, and his magnum opus was the Divine Comedy, which described a journey into heaven, hell, and purgatory. His description of ...

Most of us aim for heaven and hope to avoid hell, but rarely do we think about that other option: purgatory. Purgatory seems to come up more often in television shows or classic literature than in ...

Different interpretations of judgement, heaven, hell and purgatory as physical, spiritual or psychological realities; objective immortality in process thought. Articles and Podcasts The Tablet ...