RT Article
T1 Hell: The Mystery of Eternal Love and Eternal Obduracy
JF Theological studies
VO 75
IS 1
SP 52
OP 73
A1 Egan, Harvey D. 1937-
LA English
YR 2014
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1776674537
AB The author helps redress the absence of serious theological thinking on the biblical and church doctrine of hell and indirectly contradicts current mythological caricatures. He first evaluates diverse views from history up through the twentieth century. He then argues that an orthodox contemporary theology could understand hell as the eternally loving presence of God, Christ, angels, saints, animals, vegetation, and material creation to the damned, the eternally obdurate, whose obstinate use of their freedom has rendered them incapable of receiving and responding to this loving presence.
K1 wrath (God’s)
K1 Sheol
K1 salvation pessimism
K1 salvation optimism
K1 Purgatory
K1 limbo
K1 Hell
K1 freedom (human)
K1 Apocatastasis
K1 Annihilation
DO 10.1177/0040563913519034