Sentence examples for shape of hell from inspiring English sources
Bede in the eighth century saw almost exactly the same: frequent globes of flame rising out of a pit, in which flared the sparks of human souls.The shape of Hell, as Dante described it (and he, together with Milton, is the primary textual source for the Christian Hell, at least), is an inverted funnel of several layers separated by rocky banks, with each layer deeper and narrower than the last.
The two styles also evoke the opposing influences of Asbury's youth — the fear of hell and damnation that shaped the lives of his ancestors, and his own commitment to rationalism, which eventually led him to refute such rhetoric.
And underlying all of it was the lurking Christianity of the backwoods - of talking in tongues, shape-note singing, brokenhearted confessions, and hallucinatory visions of hell.
Representations of hell have always worked to reveal the shapes of our lives, abstract landscapes meant to describe the felt and suspected landscapes within us.
In "Inferno," Brown recounts the historical fact that Dante's vision of Hell described in the "The Divine Comedy" shaped the way many people, including the artists and architects who built the beautiful Medieval and Renaissance churches, pictured hell.
Hell, even the shape of the rear of the skull is large enough to support a massive, telekinetic-capable brain.
It puts into perspective differences between Catholic and Jewish visions of hell, and the way our respective histories have shaped our contemporary circumstances.
Pieceworkers in New York and other cities organized, but contractors, or as The New York Sun described them, "fiends in the shape of men," continued to reap huge profits while "driving ten thousand working women into the very jaws of hell".
The similarity of the orifice that frames the child to the shape of the stable in the other illustrations underscores the purpose of Christ's birth, and foreshadows the harrowing of hell.
We came out of hell," she said.
