“All souls have, when they quit this world, their different receptions. The good have joy; the evil, torments. But when the resurrection takes place, both the joy of the good will be fuller and the torments of the wicked heavier.” – St. Augustine, as...
This report examines two major contemporary works on purgatory: Jerry L. Walls’ “Purgatory: The Logic of Total Transformation” from a Protestant perspective, and Karlo Broussard’s “Purgatory Is For Real” from a Catholic viewpoint....
“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’ All that are in Hell, choose it.” – C.S. Lewis, quoted by Jerry L. Walls...
“Purgatory on this account is not in any way about satisfying divine justice or paying a debt of punishment. It is entirely a matter of continuing and completing the process of sanctification, of making us truly holy so that we can be fully at home in the...
“The eternal suffering of hell is not the result of any divine act that aims to inflict it, but rather the way that a sinful creature necessarily experiences the unmitigated presence of a holy God.” – R. Zachary Manis Introduction: Rethinking...
Core Thesis: Hell is not God’s absence or a place of divine abandonment. Instead, hell is the unbearable experience of God’s loving presence by those who have rejected Him and hardened their hearts against His love. Introduction: A Paradigm Shift in...
