The Decline of Hell : Seventeenth-Century Discussions of Eternal Torment

Omtale

In the third century C.E. the heretical Greek Father, Origen, proposed a scheme for the eventual salvation of humankind. But no more overt attacks on the eternity of hell appeared until the 17th century. This book, originally published in 1985, explores the reasons for the long survival of the doctrine and for its hold beginning to weaken