Are There Scholastic Articles on the Subject of Hell?

Based upon what TV preachers and some Fundamentalists and Evangelicals and fear-mongering monks of Catholic and Orthodox churches, one would think the whole religious world believes in a Hell of everlasting punishment. Not so. As a matter of fact, the majority of even Christians have abandoned the Dark Age concept of a Hell of bodies literally being burned forever. Sound scholastic research makes it plain the teaching of a Hell of everlasting burnings comes from the mythologies of ancient pagan religions, NOT from the early Hebrew and Christian Scriptures. Listed below are articles from dictionaries, encyclopedia's, etc. which trace the concept of a Hell of everlasting tortures to its original sources.

 

**1** From Funk and Wagnall's Encyclopedia (1961 edition)