Discussion of Universal Salvation Continued

November 17, 2020

IOTA Forum: Andrew Geleris, MD responds to David Bentley Hart's That All Shall Be Saved

The following is a response to David Bentley Hart’s book That All Shall Be Saved and the subsequent excellent reviews by Fr. Michael Plekon and Dr. David Ford. I would like to suggest that important pastoral reasons may account for the Orthodox tradition’s conflicting perspectives concerning the existence of an eternal hell. I would also like to add a thought about the issue of free will and then about how we Christians view the topic of hell in our relationships with other people.

In his book Christ the Conqueror of Hell, Met. Hilarion Alfeyev notes some of the disparate patristic and liturgical perspectives on the issue of the eternity of hell...

Read Andrew Geleris's full review here.

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