David Bentley Hart - That All Shall Be Saved

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That All Shall Be Saved Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation DAVID BENTLEY HART Yale UNIVERSITY PREss New Haven and London ...

Published with assistance from the Louis Stern Memorial Fund. Copyright © 2019 by David Bentley Hart. All rights reserved. This ...

For Narcis Tasca, who reminded me of something that I was in imminent danger of forgetting, though it was something of the utmos ...

"Our savior God ... intends that all human beings shall be saved and come to a full knowledge of the truth." -1 TIMOTHY 2:3- ...

Contents Introduction 1 PART I: THE QUESTION OF AN ETERNAL HELL Framing the Question 9 Doubting the Answers 33 PART II: APOKATAS ...

PART III: WHAT MAY BE BELIEVED Final Remarks 199 Acknowledgments and Bibliographical Notes 211 Index 215 ...

Introduction There have been Christian "universalists" -Christians, that is, who believe that in the end all persons will be sav ...

2 Introduction sil of Caesarea (c. 329-379) once observed that, in his time, a large majority of his fellow Christians (at least ...

Introduction 3 being written, edited, sorted through, and designated as either canonical or spurious. My hope is that I can assu ...

4 Introduction I find it a very curious feeling, I admit, to write a book that is at odds with a body of received opinion so inv ...

Introduction 5 worthwhile contribution to the larger conversation, even if in the end it should prove to be a suasive failure; i ...

6 Introduction count of a prior disposition on their parts to agree with some- thing like my general approach to these matters. ...

I The Question of an Eternal Hell ...

Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said: "one can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practic ...

Framing the Question I According to a legend recounted in the Apophthegmata Pa- trum, or Sayings of the Fathers-a name shared in ...

10 The Question of an Eternal Hell even from looking one another in the face; their eyes had been eternally fixed each upon his ...

Framing the Question 11 he was talking about. My reactions to the story had been en- tirely different, on both occasions. To me, ...

12 The Question of an Eternal Hell on account of some distant ancestor's transgression. For me, the tale's ultimate lesson would ...

Framing the Question 13 real hell of eternal torment (for brevity's sake, we can call them "infernalists" hereafter) never reall ...