Responses
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responses
The Disappearance of Hell in Modern Theology: An Engagement with Al Mohler
In the opening chapter of Hell Under Fire, R. Albert Mohler Jr. sets out to trace what he understands to be the steady disappearance of the doctrine of hell from modern evangelical theology. His survey is historical, but his concern is deeply theological: how and why...
Gross Misrepresentation and Recycled Arguments: A Response to Carl Kerby
In engaging with traditionalist responses to conditional immortality, I have encountered two persistent frustrations that undermine meaningful theological dialogue. The first is the traditionalist refusal to engage with contemporary annihilationist scholarship....
Five Things You Should Know about Hell: A Response to Aaron Garriott
“X things you should know about Topic Y.” Articles like this abound, each promising to provide key information about an important topic that people simply must know. Aaron Garriott has contributed such an article to the Ligonier website on the subject of hell, which...
To Hell with Skye: An Assessment of Skye Jethani’s Teaching on Hell
Recently, author, speaker, and podcast host Skye Jethani wrote a series of devotional articles about hell. Anticipating that his conditionalist understanding would be strange to many, he later arranged a live-streamed Q&A for his devotional subscribers, as well as...
Destroyed Forever: An Evaluation of Tony Gray’s Themelios Article on Conditional Immortality
Themelios describes itself as “an international, evangelical, peer-reviewed theological journal that expounds and defends the historic Christian faith.” Operated by The Gospel Coalition, this journal largely represents my theological tribe: evangelical with a Reformed...
Escape from Hell: A Response to Lee Strobel (Part 2)
“When it comes to hell, we can’t afford to be wrong.” So write Francis Chan and Preston Sprinkle, as quoted by Lee Strobel in his critique of annihilationism in The Case for Heaven. Persuaded of the traditional view of hell, Strobel, on the back of an interview with...