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Also known as limbus

thumb|Jesus in Limbo by Domenico Beccafumi

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Limbo (afterlife)
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Sheol
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Encyclopedic overview

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  • Limbo of the Patriarchs
  • Limbo of Infants
  • Latin Fathers
  • Medieval theologians
  • Modern era
  • In other denominations and religions
  • Judaism
  • Christianity
  • Protestant and Eastern Orthodox
  • Nontrinitarian
  • Zoroastrianism
  • Islam
  • Greek mythology
  • Buddhism
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

thumb|Jesus in Limbo by Domenico Beccafumi

The unofficial term Limbo (, referring to the edge of Hell) is the afterlife condition, in medieval Catholic theology, of those who die in original sin without being assigned to the Hell of the Damned.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “limbo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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