Rethinking Hell

Rethinking Hell
Author: Christopher M. Date
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2014-04-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1630871605

Most evangelical Christians believe that those people who are not saved before they die will be punished in hell forever. But is this what the Bible truly teaches? Do Christians need to rethink their understanding of hell? In the late twentieth century, a growing number of evangelical theologians, biblical scholars, and philosophers began to reject the traditional doctrine of eternal conscious torment in hell in favor of a minority theological perspective called conditional immortality. This view contends that the unsaved are resurrected to face divine judgment, just as Christians have always believed, but due to the fact that immortality is only given to those who are in Christ, the unsaved do not exist forever in hell. Instead, they face the punishment of the "second death"--an end to their conscious existence. This volume brings together excerpts from a variety of well-respected evangelical thinkers, including John Stott, John Wenham, and E. Earl Ellis, as they articulate the biblical, theological, and philosophical arguments for conditionalism. These readings will give thoughtful Christians strong evidence that there are indeed compelling reasons for rethinking hell.

The Inexhaustible Gospel

The Inexhaustible Gospel
Author: Neal A. Maxwell
Publisher: BYU Publications & Graphics
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2004
Genre: Sermons, American
ISBN: 9780842525930

Collection of 20 firesides and devotionals given by Neal A. Maxwell at Brigham Young University.

The Future Life

The Future Life
Author: Joseph Casimir Sasia
Publisher:
Total Pages: 580
Release: 1918
Genre: Future life
ISBN:

The Fire That Consumes

The Fire That Consumes
Author: Edward William Fudge
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2012-10-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0718841042

While carefully examining the complete teaching of Scripture on the subject of Final Punishment, Fudge defends the view that the destiny of the unsaved will be final destruction, rather than eternal conscious torment in hell as defended by the traditional view. The 3rd edition of this meticulous and compelling book takes a close look at the traditionalist critics, and brings an overview of developments in the last thirty years.

The Hope of Eternal Life

The Hope of Eternal Life
Author: Lowell G. Almen
Publisher: Lutheran/Roman Catholic Dialog
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781932688634

Our churches affirm that death cannot destroy the communion with God of those redeemed and justified. The nature of the life that the justified departed share with God cannot be described in great detail and, in this life, it remains a great mystery. Nevertheless, Catholics and Lutherans share the sure and certain hope that the justified departed are in Christ and enjoy the rest that belongs to those who have run the race. This common statement of Round XI offers fresh insights into some issues that proved contentious in the debates of the sixteenth century. Among the issues explored in this dialogue were continuity in the communion of saints, prayers for or about the dead, the meaning of death, purgation, an interim state between death and the final general judgment, and the promise of resurrection. Agreements are affirmed on the basis of new insights, as readers will discover in this statement of Round XI.

The Fire That Consumes

The Fire That Consumes
Author: Edward William Fudge
Publisher: Paternoster Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1994
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781842273043

The paper in this volume are organized in three parts: scriptural, contextual and theological. The central question being addressed is: how do Christians living in contexts, where Islam is a majority or minority religion, experience, express or think of the Cross? This is, therefore, an exercise in listening. As the contexts from where these engagements arise are varied, the papers in drawing scriptural, contextual and theological reflections offer a cross-section of Christian thinking about Jesus and the Cross.