Author: Robert ROBERTS (Christadelphian.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Everlasting Punishment not “Eternal Torments” ... Being a reply to three letters, written by ... J. Angus, ... and published in the “Christian World,” etc
Author: Robert ROBERTS (Christadelphian.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America
Author: Evan J. ManderyPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393239586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Drawing on never-before-published original source detail, the epic story of two of the most consequential, and largely forgotten, moments in Supreme Court history. For two hundred years, the constitutionality of capital punishment had been axiomatic. But in 1962, Justice Arthur Goldberg and his clerk Alan Dershowitz dared to suggest otherwise, launching an underfunded band of civil rights attorneys on a quixotic crusade. In 1972, in a most unlikely victory, the Supreme Court struck down Georgia’s death penalty law in Furman v. Georgia. Though the decision had sharply divided the justices, nearly everyone, including the justices themselves, believed Furman would mean the end of executions in America. Instead, states responded with a swift and decisive showing of support for capital punishment. As anxiety about crime rose and public approval of the Supreme Court declined, the stage was set in 1976 for Gregg v. Georgia, in which the Court dramatically reversed direction. A Wild Justice is an extraordinary behind-the-scenes look at the Court, the justices, and the political complexities of one of the most racially charged and morally vexing issues of our time.
Post-mortem Divine Retribution
Author: Angukali RotokhaPublisher: Langham Publishing
ISBN: 1839738650
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
While a Christian understanding of divine judgement tends to focus on the afterlife, the Hebrew Bible is far more concerned with divine retribution as something experienced in this life. Yet if the same God enacts both, should there not be significant continuity between biblical accounts of divine retribution, whether experienced in this world or the hereafter? In this study, Dr. Angukali Rotokha provides an overview of Old Testament and Second Temple sources that express conceptions of post-mortem judgement. Alongside these passages, she examines the perspective on judgement presented in Deuteronomy, with its orientation towards divine retribution as experienced on this side of death. She explores Deuteronomy’s varying emphases on the impersonal, anthropocentric, theocentric, and limited aspects of divine retribution, as well as the relevance of these conceptions to the descriptions of post-mortem judgement found in Isaiah, Daniel, 1 Enoch, and 2 Maccabees. In clarifying points of continuity and discontinuity between earthly and post-mortem divine retribution, she provides a foundation for deeper insight into the Judeo-Christian understanding of both God’s judgement and God’s grace.
A Commentary on the New Testament
Author: Lucius Robinson PaigePublisher:
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Lectures on Modern Universalism
Author: Samuel Colcord BartlettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universalism
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Author: Geoffrey William BromileyPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802837844
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 1258
Book Description
A comprehensive biblical reference includes a wide range of articles about people, places, customs, events, religious concepts, and philosophical ideas mentioned in the Scriptures.
Afterlife and Resurrection Beliefs in the Apocrypha and Apocalyptic Literature
Author: Jan Age SigvartsenPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567689255
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Jan A. Sigvartsen seeks to examine the immense interest in life after death, and speculation about the fates awaiting both the righteous and the wicked, that proliferated in the Second Temple period. In this volume Sigvartsen explores the Apocrypha and the apocalyptic writings in the Pseudepigrapha. He identifies the numerous afterlife and resurrection beliefs and presents an analysis that enables readers to easily understand and compare the wide-ranging beliefs regarding the afterlife that these texts hold. A careful reading of these resurrection passages, including passages appearing in Sirach, Maccabees, the Sibylline Oracles and the Ezra texts, reveals that most of the distinct views on life-after-death, regardless of their complexity, show little evidence of systematic development relational to one another, and are often supported by several key passages or shared motifs from texts that later became a part of the TaNaKh. Sigvartsen also highlights the factors that may have influenced the development of so many different resurrection beliefs; including anthropology, the nature of the soul, the scope of the resurrection, the number and function of judgments, and the final destination of the righteous and the wicked. Sigvartsen's study provides a deeper understanding of how the “TaNaKh” was read by different communities during this important period, and the role it played in the development of the resurrection belief – a central article of faith in both Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism.
Hope and Community
Author: Veli-Matti KärkkäinenPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802868576
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
The culmination of Kärkkäinen's multivolume magnum opus This fifth and final volume of Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen's ambitious five-volume systematic theology develops a constructive Christian eschatology and ecclesiology in dialogue with the Christian tradition, with contemporary theology in all its global and contextual diversity, and with other major living faiths--Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. In Part One of the book Kärkkäinen discusses eschatology in the contexts of world faiths and natural sciences, including physical, cosmological, and neuroscientific theories. In Part Two, on ecclesiology, he adopts a deeply ecumenical approach. His proposal for greater Christian unity includes the various dimensions of the church's missional existence and a robust dialogical witness to other faith communities.
A Debate on the Doctrines of Atonement, Universal Salvation, and Endless Punishment
Author: David HolmesPublisher:
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Category : Universalism
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
"Questions discussed. 1. Does gospel salvation embrace deliberance from just and deserved punishment? 2. Is there sufficient evidence for beliveing that all men will be finally holy and happy? 3. Is there sufficient evidence for believing that any part of the human family will suffer endless misery in a future state?" - pages [3]
The Doctrine of Future and Endless Punishment, Logically Proved, in a Critical Examination of Such Passages of Scripture as Relate to the Final Destiny of Man
Author: Reune Runyon COONPublisher:
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Category : Future punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description