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Particular judgment

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the divine judgment that a departed (dead) person undergoes immediately after death

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Last Judgement

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Judgment) of all people at the end of the world.

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The Parousia

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The Second Coming (sometimes called the Second Advent or the Parousia) is the Christian and Muslim belief that Jesus Christ will return to Earth after his ascension to Heaven (which is said to have occurred about two thousand years ago).

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Gehenna

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Gehenna is a place of punishment in Jewish and Christian eschatology, or the doctrine of last things. It is often translated as “hell” in the New Testament, and is described as a place where God’s justice will deal with evil.

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Apocalypse

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the apocalypse is the end of the world and the destruction of the world by God. The Book of Revelation, the final book of the Bible, describes the events that will take place during the apocalypse.
what happens when someone is exposed to the transcendent reality of God’s perspective. An apocalypse is a confrontation with the divine so intense that it transforms how a person views everything.

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Heaven

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Deification, union with God and the beatific vision

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Hell

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freely chosen alienation from God and permanent after last judgement

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Purgatory

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a state of purification or temporary punishment after death where souls are cleansed of impurities and prepared for heaven. purification: Ceases to be a state after
the Last Judgment

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Pope John XXII

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Pope Benedict XII

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Benedictus Deus

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Blessed God

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Beatific vision

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the moment when a person experiences the direct communication of God and achieves perfect salvation in heaven. It is the ultimate human experience, resulting in a state of eternal, perfect happiness

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Soul sleep

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that the soul of a person is unconscious after death until the resurrection.

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C. S. Lewis

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writer of the great divorce. took a trip on a bus to heaven from hell

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George MacDonald

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Was a universalist who helped lewis in heaven or purgatory

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Corporal Works of Mercy

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are a set of charitable acts that include
feeding the hungry
giving drink to the thirsty
clothing the naked

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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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a biblical metaphor for the end of times, representing conquest, war, famine, and death. They appear in the Book of Revelation, revealed when the first four of the seven seals are unsealed

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The Book of Life

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The New Jerusalem

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the City of God that will come down from heaven in the manner described in the Book of the Apocalypse (Revelation)
In continuity, fulfillment of history in the end times

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Dante Alighieri

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Wrote the divine comedy and is the main character in a journey from hell, purgatory, and heaven

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The Divine Comedy

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three canticles: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Each canticle consists of thirty-three cantos

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Beatrice

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Beatrice appears in The Divine Comedy as a guide to Dante, helping him on his journey to heaven. She was Dante’s first love, and he was reportedly only able to meet her twice in his life
She is a symbol of divine grace and the ideal of beauty and virtue. Beatrice’s guidance represents the growth of human beings spiritually.

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Bernard of Clairvaux

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he is a mystic who led Dante after Beatrice took her place back in the celestial rose

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The Empyrean

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an immaterial heaven, made up only of the love and metaphysical light which God is. It is in the Empyrean that the angels and the blessed also dwell. Heaven

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The Celestial Rose

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Communion of saints coming together. It is a depiction of saints as a constellation. Saints form the beauty of a rose.

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Shekinah

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“dwelling” or “settling” and denotes the presence of God in a place. Gods glory

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