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- Title
Aquinas on the Possibility of Hell.
- Authors
Noia, Justin
- Abstract
If God, by nature, loves each person, it seems that He would insure that each person does not suffer unending pain. But it is a traditional Christian doctrine that it is possible that some people, namely 'the damned,' spend their eternal postmortem existence in hell, in a state of extreme pain. The 'problem of hell' is the puzzle about how to reconcile the traditional Christian teaching on the nature of God with traditional Christian teaching on hell. In this paper, I show that Thomas Aquinas has valuable resources to respond to the problem of hell. In particular, I argue that, for Aquinas, God may not be able to prevent the possibility of hell, given God's desire to create free persons who are capable of entering a mutually loving relationship with Him.
- Subjects
HELL; LOVE in religion; DOCTRINAL theology; CHRISTIAN teachers; AUTOPSY; CHRISTIANITY
- Publication
Saint Anselm Journal, 2016, Vol 12, Issue 1, p19
- ISSN
2689-6230
- Publication type
Article