PEKLO A SÚČASNOSŤ ALEBO AKO JE TO S PEKLOM

• Authors: Nandrásky Karol

Title variants

EN

Hell and our times or the problem with he hell

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The paper first depictures the hell according to the traditional doctrines of churches as a place of eternal reprobation. Then it points out that many contemporary Christian believers question the doctrine of eternal tortures to be in accordance with the unconditioned divine love, proclaimed by Jesus of the Gospels. The author's question is: What was the role the ideas of the hell, included also into the New Testament (mainly under the influence of Enoch) played for Jesus himself? His answer is as follows: The Christians have no reason to take the ideas of the hell, widespread in Jesus' time, as a Revelation, even not if Jesus himself would have shared them. They were nothing more than the ideas resulting from the prevailing picture of the ancient world. Jesus did not teach the doctrine of the hell, he instead showed the people the true way of life. According to the author we should accept the Nietzschean critique of Christianity. This critique might lead us to the rediscovery of God as a totality of our possibilities.

Keywords

EN

CHRISTIANITY; HELL; JESUS; NEW TESTAMENT

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 61
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 181-207
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Nandrásky Karol

• K. Nandrasky, no address given, contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06SKAAAA01242837