#last judgement

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The Dance of the Beatified

Detail from The Last Judgement by Fra Angelico (c. 1425)

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Our Daily Bread

Fun fact, the “daily bread” is actually a mistranslation — the original Bible verse actually is “Give us today our epiousion bread”, with the Greek word epiousion and its derivative epiousios having several meanings, including… “to go” (as in, for tomorrow or the future).

Interestingly, the corresponding number for this word in Strong’s Convordance is 1967, when Aziraphale gave Crowley a thermos full of Holy Water and expressed a hope for some future food and entertainment at the Ritz, maybe even a picnic. It was also the year when the Sexual Offences Act legalised homosexual acts between men in England and Wales.

The five slices of pizza held by Jesus on the drawing and two fish in the corner are a biblical reference to the Feeding of the 5,000, also known as the “miracle of the five loaves and two fish”. The wine — probably the turning water into wine during the wedding at Cana.

As for Jesus’s actual daily bread, Roman Empire came up with cura annonae, a social welfare system including state-sponsored distribution of grains and even already baked bread. Flat one, similar to pizza. That’s what Juvenal referenced in his famous “bread and games” quote, describing the political tactic of managing the public by diversion, distraction, or by satisfying the most immediate or base requirements of a populace, “by offering a palliative: for example food (bread) or entertainment (circuses).”

Like a pizza party distracting people from the upcoming Last Judgement.

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Michelangelo

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«Heures de Louis de Laval. Le jugement dernier. », Jean Colombe, vers 1485-1489, Bourges, France.

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The Last Judgement by Hans Memling, 1467-1471.

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Saint Dumitru Stăniloae’s The Experience of God: Volume 6 - The Fulfillment of Creation [FREE PDF]

His approach is by no means "dogmatic” in an authoritarian sense. He is never content simply to state propositional truths in a doctrinaire fashion, but he seeks to expound the reasons that underlie the Church’s teaching, indicating the inner logic of the Orthodox faith, its unity and coherence, and likewise its personal relevance to daily Christian living. This sixth and final volume of The Experience of God has as its subject what in Western theology are termed “the four last things”: death, judgment, heaven, and hell. Fr. Dumitru maintains that, for each one of us, this present life is the time of decisive choice, and yet at the same time, there is progress after death. [His] unshakeable faith in the resurrection - in the conclusive victory of life over death - confers on Fr. Dumitru’s understanding of the last things a resounding note of hope. For many years to come The Experience of God will form an invaluable resource for all who seek to enter more deeply into the inner meaning of Orthodoxy.

Chapter titles

Chapter one: Death as Passage to Life Eternal

Chapter two: The Immortality of the Soul

Chapter three: The Individual Judgement and the Possibility of an Eternal Hell

Chapter four: Christ as Judge and the Witnesses to Individual Judgements

The Author and Criterion of the Individual Judgement

Witnesses, Accusers, and the Defenders at the Individual Judgement

Chapter five: The Condition of Souls between Death and Resurrection

Departed Believers’ Growth in Communion with God

The Communion of the Righteous

Prayers for the Dead

The Icons and Relics of the Saints

Chapter six: The End of the Present World

The Movement of Creation toward the End

History and Universal Eschatology

Conjectures about the World’s Final Moments

The Signs and Unseen Cause of the End

Chapter seven - The Coming of Christ and the Image of the World Made New

Chapter eight: The Resurrection of the Body

Chapter nine: Universal Judgement

Chapter ten: The Life Eternal

You can find all the books in the series for free here