Evangelicals have long been associated with belief in heaven and hell, although not many sermons are preached on damnation today and some have frankly abandoned the traditional reading of Scripture as teaching unending conscious separation from God for the lost. At the same time, mainstream Christianity is increasingly being corroded by the pleasant but hardly biblical idea that any and all religions lead to the true God.
In this book, evangelical scholars from five countries come together to debate these issues. Historical and theological surveys complement essays by Thomas F. Torrance (on the atonement), Paul Helm (‘Are they few that be saved?’) and a concluding and penetrating discussion by the French theologian Henri Blocher on ‘Everlasting punishment and the problem of evil’.