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Afterlife in Christianity

  • Divine ComedyIn the spring of 1300, Dante Alighieri stood at thirty-five years old in a dark wood, lost and unable to find the straight way to salvation.
  • HellThe modern English word hell first appeared in written records around 725 AD. It derives from the Old English forms hel and helle, which described a nether…
  • PurgatoryThe word purgatory entered English via Anglo-Norman and Old French, appearing as a noun perhaps only between 1160 and 1180.