Last Judgment

====Anglicanism and Methodism====
''Article IV – Of the Resurrection of Christ'' in Anglicanism's [[Thirty-Nine Articles|Articles of Religion]] and ''Article III – Of the Resurrection of Christ'' of Methodism's [[Articles of Religion (Methodist)|Articles of Religion]] state that:<ref name=AnglicanArticles>{{cite web|url=http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/1928/Articles.htm|title=Articles of Religion, As established by the Bishops, the Clergy, and the Laity of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, in Convention, on the twelfth day of September, in the Year of our Lord, 1801|year=1801|publisher=[[Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America]]|access-date=29 September 2015}}</ref><ref name=MethodistArticles>{{cite web|url=http://www.umc.org/what-we-believe/the-articles-of-religion-of-the-methodist-church|title=The Articles of Religion of the Methodist Church|year=1784|publisher=[[The United Methodist Church]]|access-date=29 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150928045447/http://www.umc.org/what-we-believe/the-articles-of-religion-of-the-methodist-church|archive-date=28 September 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>
{{quotation|Christ 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.<ref name=AnglicanArticles/><ref name=MethodistArticles/>}}

[[Anglican doctrine|Anglican]] and [[Methodist theology]] holds that "there is an [[Intermediate state (Christianity)|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."<ref>{{cite book|last=Holden|first=George |title=The Anglican Catechist: Manual of Instruction Preparatory to Confirmation |year=1855|publisher=Joseph Masters|location=London |pages=40|quote=We are further taught by it that there is an intermediate state between death and the resurrection, 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.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Swartz|first=Alan |title=United Methodists and the Last Days|date=20 April 2009|publisher=Hermeneutic|quote=Wesley believed that when we die we will go to an Intermediate State (Paradise for the Righteous and Hades for the Accursed). We will remain there until the Day of Judgment when we will all be bodily resurrected and stand before Christ as our Judge. After the Judgment, the Righteous will go to their eternal reward in Heaven and the Accursed will depart to Hell (see Matthew 25).}}</ref> This space, termed [[Hades in Christianity|Hades]], is divided into [[Paradise]] (the [[Bosom of Abraham]]) and [[Gehenna]] "but with an impassable gulf between the two".<ref name="Cook1883">{{cite book |last=Cook |first=Joseph |title=Advanced thought in Europe, Asia, Australia, &c |publisher=Richard D. Dickinson |year=1883 |location=London, England |page=41 |quote=Anglican orthodoxy, without protest, has allowed high authorities to teach that there is an intermediate state, Hades, including both Gehenna and Paradise, but with an impassable gulf between the two.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|quote=The country is called Hades. That portion of it which is occupied by the good is called Paradise, and that province which is occupied by the wicked is called Gehenna.|last=Withington |first=John Swann |title=The United Methodist Free Churches' Magazine |year=1878|publisher=Thomas Newton |location=London |page=685}}</ref> [[Soul in the Bible|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".<ref name="Shields2009">{{cite book|last=Shields|first=Charles|title=Philosophia Ultima|date=2009-05-01|publisher=Applewood Books|isbn=9781429019644|page=184|quote=Some Anglican divines, from like premises, have surmised that Christians may also improve in holiness after death during the middle state before the final judgment.}}</ref><ref name="Crowther1813">{{cite book |last=Crowther |first=Jonathan |url=https://archive.org/details/atrueandcomplet00crowgoog |title=A True and Complete Portraiture of Methodism |publisher=Daniel Hitt and Thomas Ware |year=1813 |page=[https://archive.org/details/atrueandcomplet00crowgoog/page/n209 195] |quote=The Methodists believe in a state of separate spirits after death, a general resurrection, a day of judgment, and a state of eternal happiness and eternal misery. They believe in a state of separate spirits. The bodies of men, after death, return to dust and see corruption; but their souls neither die nor sleep, but have an immortal subsistence, and immediately 'return to God who gave them'. The souls of the righteous, being made perfect, are received into paradise, where they are with Christ in unspeakable felicity, waiting for the full redemption of their bodies.}}</ref>

Anglican and Methodist theology holds that at the time of the [[Eschatology|Last Day]], "Jesus [[Second Coming|will return]] and that He will 'judge both the quick [the living] and the dead',"<ref name="Campbell2011">{{cite book|last=Campbell|first=Ted A.|title=Methodist Doctrine: The Essentials|date=1 December 2011|publisher=Abingdon Press|isbn=9781426713644|page=78|quote=The third Article of Religion affirms that Christ 'ascended into heaven, and there sitteth until he return to judge all men at the last day.' This statement is consistent with the Apostles' Creed ('from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead') and the Nicene Creed ('He shall come again in glory to judge the living and the dead'). In the end, Christ will be our judge. Wesley's ''Sermons'' maintain that at the final judgment every one of our thoughts, words, and deeds will be known and judged. Our justification on 'the last day' will again be by faith in Christ but our works will not escape God's examination.}}</ref> and "all [will] be bodily resurrected and stand before Christ as our Judge. After the Judgment, the Righteous will go to their eternal reward in [[Heaven (Christianity)|heaven]] and the Accursed will depart to [[Christian views on hell|hell]] (see {{Bibleverse|Matthew|25|KJV}})."<ref>{{cite book|last=Swartz|first=Alan|title=United Methodists and the Last Days|url=http://hermeneutic.org/2009/04/united-methodists-and-last-days.html|date=20 April 2009|publisher=Hermeneutic|quote=Wesley believed that when we die we will go to an Intermediate State (Paradise for the Righteous and Hades for the Accursed). We will remain there until the Day of Judgment when we will all be bodily resurrected and stand before Christ as our Judge. After the Judgment, the Righteous will go to their eternal reward in Heaven and the Accursed will depart to Hell (see Matthew 25).|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120411115342/http://hermeneutic.org/2009/04/united-methodists-and-last-days.html|archive-date=11 April 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref> 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]]).<ref>{{cite web |last=Ritchie |first=Arthur |year=1888 |title=Six Sermons to Men Preached in St. Ignatius' Church New York City During Lent, 1888 |url=http://anglicanhistory.org/usa/aritchie/lent18886.html |access-date=29 September 2015 |publisher=American Bank Note Co. |quote=The teaching of the Bible concerning the General Judgment at the end of the world presupposes a particular judgment of each soul at the hour of death, for the king at that last judgment shall separate the righteous from the wicked 'as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats.'}}</ref><ref name="StuartChappell1922">{{cite book|last1=Stuart|first1=George Rutledge|last2=Chappell|first2=Edwin Barfield|title=What Every Methodist Should Know|url=https://archive.org/details/whateverymethod00chapgoog|year=1922|publisher=Publishing house of the M. E. church, South, Lamar & Barton, agents|page=[https://archive.org/details/whateverymethod00chapgoog/page/n81 77]|quote=The issue of this judgment shall be a permanent separation of the evil and the good, the righteous and the wicked.}}</ref> Moreover, in "the final judgment every one of our thoughts, words, and deeds will be known and judged" and individuals will be [[Justification (theology)|justified]] on the basis of their [[Born again (Christianity)#Methodism and other Evangelicals|faith in Jesus]], although "[[Sola fide#Methodist view|our works]] will not escape God's examination."<ref name="Campbell2011"/>