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Tag Archives: annihilation
When Hell Becomes Dogma: Damning to Nothingness
My working principle: once eternal damnation is accepted by an ecclesial community as dogmatically binding, three things happen: Holy Scripture and the patristic tradition will be read through the dogma. Preaching and theological speculation will be governed by the dogma, … Continue reading
Despairing into Gehenna: Manis, Kierkegaard, and the Choice Model
For over fifteen hundred years, the dominant Christian understanding of hell has been one of everlasting punishment. Zachary Manis summarizes the traditional position (particularly as taught in the Western Church): “The purpose of hell is retribution: one’s consignment to hell … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Eschatology
Tagged annihilation, choice model, damnation, despair, free will, hell, justice, Kierkegaard, retribution
108 Comments
Hell and the Solidarity of Love
Can you imagine yourself enjoying perfect happiness and bliss in heaven if you knew that a beloved spouse, child, or friend was suffering everlasting torment in hell? In his wonderful parable The Great Divorce, C. S. Lewis presents an interaction … Continue reading
Posted in Eschatology, Thomas Talbott
Tagged annihilation, Aquinas, C. S. Lewis, damnation, Great Divorce, hell, pity, Tom Talbott
8 Comments
Annihilating Angels
Catholic theologian Paul J. Griffiths has proposed a controversial thesis: annihilation is a novissimal possibility for angels and human beings; they may find their last thing in a decreative return to the nothingness. One point needs to be clarified, though. … Continue reading
Posted in Eschatology, Paul Griffiths
Tagged angels, annihilation, damnation, demons, hell, Paul Griffiths, Satan, universal salvation
23 Comments
The Novissimum of Annihilation
Novissima, the last things—there was a time when Western pastors would systematically preach on the last things under four topics: death, judgment, heaven, and hell. During my thirty years of active ministry, I preached on the last things during Advent … Continue reading
Posted in Eschatology, Paul Griffiths
Tagged angels, annihilation, annihilationism, damnation, heaven, hell, last things, Paul Griffiths
2 Comments
Eclectic Orthodoxy 