Category Archives: Hell Literature Reviews
The Only Deliverer from the Wrath to Come, Thomas Vincent
Puritan sermon on 1 Thessalonians 1:10. Much here on hell, but wider focus ...
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Fire and Brimstone, Thomas Vincent
Characteristically systematic and passionate Puritan pleading concerning hell, Christ, and saving faith. Short, but very powerful. Sermon on Psalm 11:6 ...
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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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Eternal Punishment, A. W. Pink
An extremely short but solid work from a renowned theologian ...
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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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Sermons Upon Death and Judgment, William Bates
Most Puritan authors have excellent theology of hell and punishment, but Bates has some particularly good insights and turns-of-phrase ...
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Hell and the Justice of God, Marilyn McCord Adams
Some serious missteps here by McCord Adams in this philosophy-oriented article, and not only from a biblical perspective, but even in reading other authors well ...
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Divine Penology, L. B. Hartman
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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