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Responses to the problem of evil have traditionally been in three types: refutations, defenses, and theodicies. The problem of evil is generally formulated in two forms: the logical problem of evil and the evidential problem of evil. The logical form of the argument tries to show a logical impossibility in the coexistence of a god and evil, [ 2 ...
- Hart’s Rhetoric
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- Hart’s Exegesis
- On Living Out One’S Eschatology
One cannot consider Hart’s arguments for Christian universalism apart from the ethos and pathos of his prose. Willis Jenkins speaks of Hart’s “adjectival petulance,” while Douglas Farrow calls him “an intellectual pugilist who floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee.” For better and for worse, Hart’s verbal pyrotechnics are as obvious as a bo...
Once the verbal clouds and smoke of battle have scattered, what arguments for universalism remain visible in Hart’s book? That All Shall Be Savedoffers three major lines of argument for universalism. I will refer to these as the “responsible Creator argument” (that divine creation itself implies universal salvation), the “choosing good argument” (t...
As noted already, Hart’s New Testament translation is part of his universalist project. Writing in The New York Review of Books, Garry Wills judged that Hart “labors to oust hell from the text of the Bible,” and identified evidence to support this conclusion. Instead of referring to hell’s fire as “eternal,” he translates aiōnios as “of the Age” (a...
Hart rarely shows a pastoral touch in his writing. His account of universal salvation is speculative, abstract, detached—the kind of book that a religious intellectual writes without bothering about its effect on lay Christians or on everyday life. In marked contrast, biblical teachings on eschatology blend future expectation with missional urgency...
Jun 13, 2022 · The obscenity of belief in an eternal hell. David Bentley Hart. Posted13 Jun 2022, updated13 Jun 2022. Even if the received Christian view of hell were that of an exclusive preserve for only the ...
That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation is a 2019 book by philosopher and religious studies scholar David Bentley Hart published by Yale University Press. In it Hart argues that "if Christianity taken as a whole is indeed an entirely coherent and credible system of belief, then the universalist understanding of its message is the only one possible."
Sep 9, 2022 · The distinction between self-love and love of others also helps us understand why Christ as a human being can have a perfect relationship to God despite the fact that he cannot possibly determine himself against God (he cannot sin).53 The explanation is that Christ is identical to God, and his love of God is therefore a case of divine self-love, even though Christ’s love also involves a ...
The topic of hell, however, has made a dramatic comeback, and there is probably no more heated debate in biblical and theological studies than that over the eternal punishment in hell. R. C. Sproul claims that “there is no topic in Christian theology more difficult to deal with, particularly on an emotional level, than the doctrine of hell.” 4 Recent literature on this subject and closely ...
Sep 16, 2002 · The Problem of Evil. First published Mon Sep 16, 2002; substantive revision Tue Mar 3, 2015. The epistemic question posed by evil is whether the world contains undesirable states of affairs that provide the basis for an argument that makes it unreasonable to believe in the existence of God. This discussion is divided into eight sections.
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