abominable fancy

{{short description|Eternal punishment of the damned in Hell would entertain the saved}}

The term "abominable fancy" was first used by Frederic Farrar for the long-standing Christian idea that the eternal punishment of the damned in Hell entertains the saved in Heaven.The Decline of Hell: Seventeenth-Century Discussions of Eternal Torment. Walker DP. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964 According to Philip C. Almond, this view was held by several Christian philosophers, including Augustine, Tertullian, Thomas Aquinas and Peter Lombard.Philip C. Almond, Heaven and Hell in Enlightenment England, p.97. {{ISBN|978-0521101257}}Alice Bennett, Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction, p.204. {{ISBN|1137022698}}.