Tag Archives: 21st Century

Heaven and Hell in the Preaching of the Gospel: A Historical Survey, David Larsen
Great article which surveys the preaching on eternal matters in the history of the church. Concise, encouraging and emboldening. Highly recommended ...
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The Promise of the Future, Cornelis Venema
Highly recommended although it is far wider in scope that hell and judgment ...
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Species of Hell, Kronen & Reitan
Probably the best objection to hell I have ever read, or at least it seemed so to me at the time of reading. There are longer and more substantial works, like Talbott, but none as subtle and sophisticated ...
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The Problem of Hell: A Philosophical Anthology, Joel Buenting
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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The Typography of Divine Love, Jeff Jordan
Useful journal article, with some very interesting insights, albeit some unwarranted conclusions ...
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Hell, Divine Love, and Divine Justice, Michael Stoeber
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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Hell, Vagueness, and Justice: A Reply to Sider, Trent Dougherty & Ted Poston
Short, philosophical article that includes some rather interesting thought experiments against Sider’s vagueness argument against the traditional hell ...
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Love Wins, Rob Bell
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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Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We’ve Made Up, Francis Chan & Preston Sprinkle
A well-written, popular-level book by in answer to Bell’s Love Wins. At times it is frustratingly ambivalent or vague, however. Good, but not at all great ...
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Reconciliationism: A Forgotten Evangelical Doctrine of Hell, Andy Saville
Genuinely useful, if ultimately unbiblical viewpoint. Worth the interaction. See also Blocher’s chapter in Universalism and the Doctrine of Hell ...
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