off from God and dwell in “unquenchable fire.” Dante’s Inferno presents one classic version of this view of hell. Yet it is important to note that this is not the only way of understanding hell, and it does not even make particularly good sense of the passage at hand. There is a strong countercurrent in Christian theology that resists speculation about eternal torture and focuses instead on hell as a strong symbol for separation from God. Many Christian theologians from the early twentieth century