Category Archives: Hell Literature Reviews

An uneven collection of essays from a philosophical perspective on hell. Among the more useful and engaging are Kronen & Reitan’s “Species of Hell”, and “Hell, Wrath, and the Grace of God,” by Stephen Davis ...
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Chapter in Immortality or Extinction. Merely skim-read the rest of the book. A few useful contrary illustrations ...
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This short, obscure book is the greatest book on hell ever written, in my estimation. Hartman is persuasive, memorable, thoroughly biblical, and effortless with a wide range of sources. If I had come across Divine Penology at the beginning of my research, I may not have written Is There Anything Good About Hell? Simply phenomenal. It deserves to be widely ...
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Useful journal article, with some very interesting insights, albeit some unwarranted conclusions ...
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Interesting article on the role of compassion and love towards those in hell. Interacts with many church fathers, but ultimately misses much of the Bible’s teaching on wrath and God’s hatred ...
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Packer draws from a deep well and gets some things right about hell but unfortunately gets a few too many things wrong. This is especially fascinating in light of the many forewords and recommendations he has given to book on hell from a traditional perspective ...
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Short, philosophical article that includes some rather interesting thought experiments against Sider’s vagueness argument against the traditional hell ...
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Intellectual pap. Poison masquerading as Christian insight. Nothing redeeming here. There are much better explanations or defenses of this unbiblical position out there, such as from Talbott ...
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A 17th Century Puritan, Love’s writing on hell is bold, biblical and Edwardsian. Hard-hitting, but very good. Co-authors are the McMahon's ...
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Very useful overview of thinking on eternity in the 17th and 18th Centuries in England. As such, it is a useful source for other study. For academic work it will lay a good foundation ...
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