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Philosophy of Religion

Thinking About Faith

By: C. Stephen Evans,R. Zachary Manis

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Philosophy of Religion

Thinking About Faith

By: C. Stephen Evans,R. Zachary Manis

With over 40,000 copies in print since its original publication in 1982, Steve Evans's Philosophy of Religion has served many generations of students. In this new edition Zach Manis joins Evans in a thorough revamping of arguments and information, while maintaining the qualities of clarity and brevity that made the first edition so appreciated.

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InterVarsity Press

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0830879331

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9780830879335

Sinners in the Presence of a Loving God

An Essay on the Problem of Hell

By: R. Zachary Manis

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Sinners in the Presence of a Loving God

An Essay on the Problem of Hell

By: R. Zachary Manis

Why would a perfectly good and loving God consign anyone to eternal suffering in hell? In Sinners in the Presence of a Loving God, R. Zachary Manis examines in detail the various facets of the problem of hell, considers the reasons why the usual responses to the problem are unsatisfying, and suggests how an adequate solution to the problem can be constructed. Historically, there are four standard explanations of the nature and purpose of hell: traditionalism, annihilationism, the choice model, and universalism. In Manis's assessment, all are deficient in some crucial respect. The alternative view that he develops and defends, the divine presence model, stands within the tradition that understands hell to be a state of eternal conscious suffering, but, Manis contends, avoids the worst problems of its competitors. The key idea is that the suffering of hell is not the result of a divine act that aims to inflict it, but rather is the way in which a sinful creature necessarily experiences the unmitigated presence of a holy God. Heaven and hell are not two "places" to which the saved and damned are consigned, respectively, but rather are two radically different ways in which different persons will experience the same reality of God's omnipresence once the barrier of divine hiddenness is finally removed.

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Oxford University Press

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0190929278

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9780190929275

Thinking Through the Problem of Hell

The Divine Presence Model

By: R. Zachary Manis

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Thinking Through the Problem of Hell

The Divine Presence Model

By: R. Zachary Manis

The Christian tradition teaches that some people will suffer eternally in hell. But why? Doesn’t an all-powerful God have the ability to prevent this from happening to anyone? Wouldn’t a perfectly good and loving God want to prevent it? And doesn’t the traditional teaching about hell function as a threat, coercing those who truly believe it? These questions convey the problem of hell, the most disturbing of all theological problems and one of the most difficult to solve. Thinking Through the Problem of Hell is a rigorous yet accessible treatment of the issue. The solution that it develops, called the divine presence model, is that heaven and hell are the various ways that the righteous and the wicked experience the presence of God after the final judgment. In its fully developed form, the divine presence model addresses a whole host of theological issues: the purpose of suffering, the meaning of salvation, the nature of free will and self-deception, and the reason that God remains partially hidden in this life, even to those who earnestly seek Him. This is a book for those who refuse pat, simplistic answers to the hardest questions of the Christian faith.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1666771430

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9781666771435

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Philosophy of Religion

Philosophy of Religion

Sinners in the Presence of a Loving God

Sinners in the Presence of a Loving God

Thinking Through the Problem of Hell

Thinking Through the Problem of Hell

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