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David Bentley Hart's That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell & Universal Salvation (Yale University Press, 2019) is a popular new book by an outstanding Eastern Orthodox theologian on a locus that I'm passionate about—Christian Universalism! I'm pleased to say that I highly recommend it for its excellent defense of […]
 
Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768—1834), the father of modern theology and liberal Protestantism was one of the first theologians to write that is it is not possible for people to be eternally blessed (in heaven) when they know that others are in eternal torment (in hell.) Before Schleiermacher theologians throughout church history […]
 
This week, a celebrity pastor equated the love of Jesus with unending punishment in hell, and justified his comment with arguments such as counting the number of biblical references to Jesus (without any respect to author or intention, and as if the number of verses a word occurs in the […]
 
Jürgen Moltmann said that the logic of hell is inhumane and extremely atheistic and Pelagian in his essay "The Logic of Hell" included in God Will Be All In All: The Eschatology of Jurgen Moltmann (pp. 43-47). Proponents of hell (!) argue that God's love is extended to all people but anyone who […]
 
The Apostles' Creed is among the oldest universally accepted symbols of the Christian faith. In Karl Barth's commentary on the Apsotles' Creed, he observes that there is no mention of Satan, Hell or Eternal Death in the Apostles' Creed, there is only mention of Eternal Life. And although this creed mentions […]
 
~ Updated and Revised: February 26th, 2019 ~ John Calvin confessed that the doctrine of Double Predestination was a horrible and dreadful decree in his Institutes of the Christian Religion. Calvin believed that the scriptures taught that God made an "absolute decree" (latin. decretum absolutum) before the foundation of the world that […]
 
Hans Urs Von Balthasar Hans Urs Von Balthasar's short book, Dare We Hope: That All Men May Be Saved (With A Short Discourse On Hell), is an excellent introduction into the question Universal Salvation. Balthasar argues that Hell is a 'real possibility', however, there is good reason to hope that in the end, […]
 
Grand Prism Spring, Yellowstone National Park The Grand Prism Spring and many more massive boiling sulfur springs at Yellowstone National Park have brilliant colored bacteria, and the hotter the spring, the more vibrant the color of the bacterias, yielding rainbow ponds. This is the imagery behind Augustine's description of the worms […]