Front cover ; Title page; Contents; Foreword to the Third Edition; Foreword to the First Edition; Foreword to the Second Edition; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Rethinking Hell: Apostasy or New Reformation?; 2. Back to the Bible: The Protestant Principle; 3. Souls: Immortal or Otherwise; 4. Aiōnios: Duration, Quality, or Both?; 5. Sheol/Hades: Gravedom?; 6. Divine Justice: When?; 7. Divine Justice: Historical Examples; 8. Divine Justice: Messiah and the End; 9. Diversity: Apocrypha and Dead Sea Scrolls; 10. Diversity: Pseudepigrapha; 11. Jesus: Fire (Gehenna). 12. Jesus: Fire (Gehenna Not Named)13. Jesus: Fire (Parable of the Sheep and the Goats); 14. Jesus: Fire (Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus); 15. Jesus: Non-fire Images; 16. Golgotha: Judgment Revealed (1); 17. Golgotha: Judgment Revealed (2); 18. Thessalonians; 19. Galatians and Corinthians; 20. Romans, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians; 21. Hebrews, James, Acts; 22. 1-2 Peter, 1-3 John, Jude; 23. Revelation; 24. Apostolic Fathers and Their Successors; 25. The Apologists: A Fire That Torments; 26. Apokatastasis : A Fire That Purifies; 27. Arnobius to Augustine. 28. Augustine's Case for Unending Torment29. Middle Ages to Reformation; 30. John Calvin: Psychopannychia; 31. An Old Tradition Questioned; 32. Roots of the Current Recovery; 33. The Evangelical Recovery Continues; 34A Kinder and Gentler Traditionalism; 34. A Kinder and Gentler Traditionalism; 35. Refreshing the Memory; 36. Afterword; Bibliography; Back cover.
Fire That Consumes, while carefully examining the complete teaching of Scripture on the subject of Final Punishment, defends the view that the destiny of the unsaved will be final destruction, rather than eternal conscious torment in hell as defended by the traditional view. The 3rd edition of this meticulous and compelling book takes a close look at the traditionalist critics, and brings an overview of developments in the last thirty years.