The ‘spiritually beneficial tale’ De Philentolo fornicatore, as it was termed by the Bollandist fathers, contains quite an original vision of the otherworld, in which a man is shown trapped between Hell and Heaven due to the perfect balance of his good and evil deeds – that is, on the one hand, his numerous charitable actions, and on the other, his repeated sexual sins. This paper aims to provide new insight into the origins and the reception of this tale, together with an edition of four Greek redactions (BHG 1322w, 1322xd, 1322x and 1322xc, the latter two previously unpublished).
De Philentolo fornicatore or the Tale of the Soul Stuck Betwixt Heaven and Hell. A curious Story and a Theological Paradox
SILVANO, Luigi
2016-01-01
Abstract
The ‘spiritually beneficial tale’ De Philentolo fornicatore, as it was termed by the Bollandist fathers, contains quite an original vision of the otherworld, in which a man is shown trapped between Hell and Heaven due to the perfect balance of his good and evil deeds – that is, on the one hand, his numerous charitable actions, and on the other, his repeated sexual sins. This paper aims to provide new insight into the origins and the reception of this tale, together with an edition of four Greek redactions (BHG 1322w, 1322xd, 1322x and 1322xc, the latter two previously unpublished).
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