The Decline of Hell

Seventeenth-Century Discussions of Eternal Torment
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-15714-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

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 seventeenth century. This book, originally published in 1985, explores the reasons for the long survival of the doctrine and for its hold beginning to weaken about 300 years ago. The chief reason for its breakdown, the author suggests, was a gradual change in the attitude to other people’s suffering, and, connected with this, a weakening of the principle of vindictive justice, and an evolution of the attributes of God, in whom Love slowly gained ground over Justice. The thinkers discussed range from members of heretical sects, such as the Socinians or the English and German Philadelphians, through several groups of English Platonists, including Henry More and Peter Sterry, to figures such as Pierre Bayle and Leibniz.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walker, D. P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Religionspsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Introduction 2. Strengths of the Doctrine of Hell 3. Weaknesses of the Doctrine of Hel 4. The Merciful Doctors 5. Socinians 6. English Arians 7. English Platonists 1: Sterry and White 8. English Platonists 2: Henry More and Some Friends 9. English Platonists 3: Thomas Burnet 10. English Platonists 4: Shaftesbury 11. Pierre Bayle and Some Friends 12. Theodicy: Malebranche and Leibniz 13. English Philadelphians 1: Mrs Lead 14. German Philadelphians: The Petersens 15. English Philadelphians 2: Roach and the Camisards.

Über Autor(innen)

D. P. Walker (1914–1985) was an English historian and author of several notable works on the Occult.