218
God (continued)
86, 90, 165, 169-171, 175, 178,
184-186, 209; Hegelian con-
ception of, 72; and humanity,
139-144, 164, 172; and justice,
135-136; limited conceptions of,
181-185, 193-194; moral charac-
ter of, 11-13, 15, 17, 18, 21, 23-24,
47-61,68,69,72,76,83,90,
132, 135, 167, 170-171, 202-203,
208; nature of, 56-60; omnipo-
tence of, 13, 47-51, 57, 82, 170,
182-183; omniscience of, 12, 13,
57-58, 82, 183-184; as a person,
154; power of, 81, 162; rejection
of, 18, 43, 178, 180-181, 185, 188-
189, 192-193, 208; sovereignty
of, 48, 77-78, 80-81, 170-171,
193-194; as Truth, 41, 56, 80,
168-170, 178-179, 186-187; as
unity ("all in all"), 89, 142-143,
158, 161, 164, 193-195; wrath of,
24-26, 73, 76-77, 134-135, 137
Good: desire for, 36-37, 39-42, 79,
165, 170, 172-179, 184-186, 190-
191, 209; evil as privation of,
70-71, 143, 165, 175; God as, 18,
28, 37, 39-42, 55, 57-58, 60-61,
69, 86, 90, 165, 169-171, 175, 178,
184-186, 209
good tidings, 66, 131, 205
grace, 52, 133, 141
Gregory of Nazianzus, 200-201
Gregory of Nyssa, 66, 68, 89, 103,
123, 129, 138-143, 145, 154, 155,
163-166, 190-193, 195; On the
Making of Humanity, 68, 139-
141, 143-144, 165; On the Song
of Songs, 158; On the Soul and
Resurrection, 68, 142; On Vir-
ginity, 141
Hades, 112, 118
Hearn, Lafcadio, 14Indexheaven: personhood and, 156;
scripture on, 111-120
Hebrews, epistle to, 98
Hegel, G.W.F., 72
hell: as annihilation of evildoers,
86-87, 194; believers in, 118-119;
Buddhist conceptions of, 14;
concepts associated with, 33;
Dante's account of, 21-24; de-
scription of, 118; descriptions
of, 9-10, 107; early Christian
conception of, 1-2; everyday
experience of, 16, 62; freedom
to love associated with, 34-35;
God's love as source of punish-
ments of, 22-25; love's absence/
refusal in humans as source
of, 16-17, 27, 62; moral justi-
fications of, 12-13, 15-16, 18,
77-78, 132, 146-147; nature of,
129; purgatory distinguished
from, 118; scripture on, 111-
120; as self-chosen, 13, 22-23,
33-34, 79-80, 146, 171, 180-
181, 192; soul's experience of,
16-17; terms in New Testament
approximating, 112-113, 118. See
also eternal hell
Hillel, Rabbi, 114-115
Hitler, Adolf, 38-39, 40, 84
hopeful universalism, 66, 102
humanity: ideal of, 139-144, 172;
universality of, 140-158, 164ignorance, 36, 42
infants, and sin, 75-76, 145
infernalist position: God as con-
ceived by, 13, 34, 47, 53, 54-55,
170-171, 181; historical <level-