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Hell is talked about cautiously, if at all, in mainline churches. Yet the notion of a divinely ordained place of punishment for the wicked after death is deeply embedded in the Christian imagination.

ATHENS, Ala. - Black and white. Heaven and hell. Right and wrong. Blur or question those lines, and, well, all hell can break out. At least it did for Edward Fudge in the early 1980s in this small ...

One cannot deny the traditional Christian doctrine of hell and honestly call oneself an orthodox Christian. No mainline or self-proclaimed evangelical denomination denies this doctrine (Seventh-Day ...

An eloquent preacher of the 19th century held audiences spellbound by his horrendous descriptions of the agonies of hell. It is said that the word pictures he painted were so vivid, you could almost ...

How the threat of eternal punishment stirred moral and spiritual urgency in early America. Hell mattered a lot before the Civil War. The prospect of eternal torment was cited to bolster the urgency of ...

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Rob Bell, as you may have heard, sympathizes with those who have left the church because of their discomfort with the doctrine of eternal punishment. Alas, he seems to lack sympathy for people still ...

According to some snappy Wikipedia research, the Harrowing of Hell was introduced in earnest in the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus. Previous gospels had described Christ descending to the land of the ...