Her gates will never be shut : hope, hell, and the new Jerusalem /
Bradley Jersak.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 220 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220).
The biblical possibility of judgment -- The gehenna tradition(s) -- The biblical spectrum of descriptions for hell and judgment -- The lake of fire -- The biblical possibility of ultimate redemption -- Possibility and hope in the early church -- Mercy proposed : apokatastasis in Clement, Origen, and Gregory -- Judgment presumed : infernalism in Augustine, Calvin, and evangelical tradition -- Mercy triumphs over judgment : eschatological hope and von Balthazar's dare -- Approaching revelation : bifurcation and consummation -- Eschatological hope in Revelation 21-22 -- The Alpha and Omega : "done" -- Addendum: A word to fellow evangelicals -- Afterword: Hell : the nemesis of hope? / by Nik Ansell.