The Fire That Consumes: A Biblical and Historical Study of the Doctrine of Final Punishment. 3rd edition, fully updated, revised and expanded

Synopsis

Evangelical Christians Affirm Together That A Dreadful Destiny Awaits Those Who Reject God's Grace Throughout Life. According To The Traditional View, That Destiny Will Involve Unending Conscious Torment In Hell. However, Believers Are Increasingly Questioning That Understanding, As Both Unbiblical And Inconsistent With The Character Of God Revealed In The Scriptures And In The Man Jesus Christ. This Book Examines The Complete Teaching Of Scripture On The Subject Of Final Punishment. It Concludes That Hell Is A Place Of Total Annihilation, Everlasting Destruction, Although The Destructive Process Emcompasses Conscious Torment Of Whatever Sort, Intensity And Duration God Might Require In Each Individual Case. - Publisher Info. Rethinking Hell : Apostasy Or New Reformation? -- Back To The Bible : The Protestant Principle -- Souls : Immortal Or Otherwise -- Aiōnos : Duration, Quality, Or Both? -- Sheol/hades : Gracedom? -- Divine Justice : When? -- Divine Justice : Historical Examples -- Divine Justice : Messiah And The End -- Diversity : Apocrypha And Dead Sea Scrolls -- Diversity : Pseudepigrapha -- Jesus : Fire (gehenna) -- Jesus : Fire (gehenna Not Named) -- Jesus : Fire (parable Of The Sheep And Goats) -- Jesus : Fire (parable Of The Rich Man And Lazarus) Jesus : Non-fire Images -- Golgotha : Judgment Revealed (1) -- Golgotha : Judgment Revealed (2) -- Thessalonians -- Galatians And Corinthians -- Romans, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians -- Hebrews, James, Acts -- 1-2, Peter, 1-3 John, Jude -- Revelation -- Apostolic Fathers And Their Successors -- The Apologists : A Fire That Torments -- Apokatastasis : A Fire That Purifies -- Arnobius To Augustine -- Augustine's Case For Unending Torment -- Middle Ages To Reformation -- John Calvin : Psychopannychia -- An Old Tradition Questioned -- Roots Of The Current Recovery -- The Evangelical Recovery Continues -- A Kinder And Gentler Traditionalism -- Refreshing The Memory -- Afterword. Edward William Fudge. Fully Updated, Revised, And Expanded--front Cover. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 379-393) And Indexes.