Rethinking Hell

Rethinking Hell
Title Rethinking Hell PDF eBook
Author Christopher M. Date
Publisher Wipf and Stock Publishers
Pages 344
Release 2014-04-15
Genre Religion
ISBN 1630871605

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Most evangelical Christians believe that those people who are not saved before they die will be punished in hell forever. But is this what the Bible truly teaches? Do Christians need to rethink their understanding of hell? In the late twentieth century, a growing number of evangelical theologians, biblical scholars, and philosophers began to reject the traditional doctrine of eternal conscious torment in hell in favor of a minority theological perspective called conditional immortality. This view contends that the unsaved are resurrected to face divine judgment, just as Christians have always believed, but due to the fact that immortality is only given to those who are in Christ, the unsaved do not exist forever in hell. Instead, they face the punishment of the "second death"--an end to their conscious existence. This volume brings together excerpts from a variety of well-respected evangelical thinkers, including John Stott, John Wenham, and E. Earl Ellis, as they articulate the biblical, theological, and philosophical arguments for conditionalism. These readings will give thoughtful Christians strong evidence that there are indeed compelling reasons for rethinking hell.

Lessing and the Enlightenment

Lessing and the Enlightenment
Title Lessing and the Enlightenment PDF eBook
Author Henry E. Allison
Publisher SUNY Press
Pages 252
Release 2018-01-29
Genre Drama
ISBN 1438468032

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A comprehensive study of Lessing’s religious thought. Although only one aspect of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s diverse oeuvre, his religious thought had a significant influence on thinkers such as Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and present-day liberal Protestant theologians. His thought is particularly difficult to assess, however, because it is found largely in a series of essays, reviews, critical studies, polemical writings, and commentary on theological texts. Beyond these, his correspondence, and a few fragmentary essays unpublished during his lifetime, we have his famous drama of religious toleration, Nathan the Wise, and his philosophical-historical sketch, The Education of the Human Race. In these scattered texts, Lessing challenged the full range of theological views in the Enlightenment, from Protestant orthodoxy, with its belief in Biblical inerrancy, to a radical naturalism, which rejected both the concept of a divine revelation and the historically based claims of Christianity to be one, as well as virtually everything in between. Since he refused to identify himself with any of these parties, Lessing was an enigmatic figure, and a central question from his time to today is where he stood on the issue of the truth of the Christian religion. Now back in print, and with the addition of two supplementary essays, Henry E. Allison’s book argues that, despite appearances, Lessing was not merely an eclectic thinker or intellectual provocateur, but a serious philosopher of religion, who combined a basically Spinozistic conception of God with a sophisticated pluralistic conception of religious truth inspired by Leibniz.

Fast Pitch

Fast Pitch
Title Fast Pitch PDF eBook
Author Nic Stone
Publisher Crown Books for Young Readers
Pages 192
Release 2021-08-31
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1984893033

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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone comes a challenging and heartwarming coming-of-age story about a softball player looking to prove herself on and off the field. Shenice Lockwood, captain of the Fulton Firebirds, is hyper-focused when she steps up to the plate. Nothing can stop her from leading her team to the U12 fast-pitch softball regional championship. But life has thrown some curveballs her way. Strike one: As the sole team of all-brown faces, Shenice and the Firebirds have to work twice as hard to prove that Black girls belong at bat. Strike two: Shenice’s focus gets shaken when her great-uncle Jack reveals that a career-ending—and family-name-ruining—crime may have been a setup. Strike three: Broken focus means mistakes on the field. And Shenice’s teammates are beginning to wonder if she’s captain-qualified. It's up to Shenice to discover the truth about her family’s past—and fast—before secrets take the Firebirds out of the game forever.

Revelation

Revelation
Title Revelation PDF eBook
Author N. T. Wright
Publisher InterVarsity Press
Pages 129
Release 2012-08-02
Genre Religion
ISBN 0830821996

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Under the guidance of one of the world's leading New Testament scholars, you and your small group will here discover that the bizarre images of Revelation conceal one of Scripture's clearest and most dramatic visions of God's plan for creation.

Musical Messenger

Musical Messenger
Title Musical Messenger PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 430
Release 1923
Genre
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Revelations Sealed

Revelations Sealed
Title Revelations Sealed PDF eBook
Author Cheri Lynn Potter
Publisher Xlibris Corporation
Pages 430
Release 2011-03-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 1456866303

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History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century

History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century
Title History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century PDF eBook
Author Leslie Stephen
Publisher London Smith, Elder 1876.
Pages 492
Release 1876
Genre Philosophy, English
ISBN

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