#The last judgment michelangelo full#

Immediately upon death each person undergoes the particular judgment, and depending upon one's behavior on earth, goes to heaven, purgatory, or hell. The Last Judgment, Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo (1536-1541)īelief in the Last Judgment (often linked with the general judgment) is held firmly in Catholicism. Moreover, in 'the final judgment every one of our thoughts, words, and deeds will be known and judged' and individuals will be justified on the basis of their faith in Jesus, although ' our works will not escape God's examination.' Catholicism

After the Judgment, the Righteous will go to their eternal reward in heaven and the Accursed will depart to hell (see Matthew 25).' The 'issue of this judgment shall be a permanent separation of the evil and the good, the righteous and the wicked' (see The Sheep and the Goats). Īnglican and Methodist theology holds that at the time of the Last Day, 'Jesus will return and that He will 'judge both the quick and the dead',' and 'all be bodily resurrected and stand before Christ as our Judge. Souls remain in Hades until the Last Judgment and 'Christians may also improve in holiness after death during the middle state before the final judgment'.

Īnglican and Methodist theology holds that 'there is an intermediate state between death and the resurrection of the dead, in which the soul does not sleep in unconsciousness, but exists in happiness or misery till the resurrection, when it shall be reunited to the body and receive its final reward.' This space, termed Hades, is divided into Paradise (the Bosom of Abraham) and Gehenna 'but with an impassable gulf between the two'. The doctrine and iconographic depiction of the Last Judgment are drawn from many passages from the apocalyptic sections of the Bible, but most notably from Jesus' teaching of the strait gate in the Gospel of Matthew and in the Gospel of Luke.Īrticle IV – Of the Resurrection of Christ in Anglicanism's Articles of Religion and Article III – Of the Resurrection of Christ of Methodism's Articles of Religion state that: Ĭhrist did truly rise again from death, and took again his body, with flesh, bones, and all things appertaining to the perfection of Man's nature wherewith he ascended into Heaven, and there sitteth, until he return to judge all Men at the last day. The Last Judgment mosaic (14th-century), south facade of Saint Vitus Cathedral, Prague, Czech Republic. The Last Judgment has inspired numerous artistic depictions.

#The last judgment michelangelo full#

Christian futurists believe it will follow the resurrection of the dead and the Second Coming of Jesus, while full preterists believe it has already occurred. The Christian tradition is also followed by Islam, where it is mentioned in the 43rd chapter ( Az-Zukhruf) of the Quran, according to some interpretations. The concept is found in all the canonical gospels, particularly in the Gospel of Matthew. The Last Judgment, Final Judgment, Day of Reckoning, Day of Judgment, Judgment Day, Doomsday or The Day of the Lord ( Hebrew: יום הדין, romanized: Yom ha-Dīn Arabic: یوم القيامة, romanized: Yawm al-Qiyāmah or یوم الدین, Yawm ad-Dīn) is part of the Abrahamic religions and the Frashokereti of Zoroastrianism.Ĭhristianity considers the Second Coming of Jesus Christ to entail the final judgment by God of all people who have ever lived, resulting in the approval of some and the penalizing of others.