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Christianity: Faith, Scripture and Tradition

The Decline of Hell

Seventeenth-Century Discussions of Eternal Torment

by D. P. Walker

A study of the seventeenth-century thinkers in England and on the Continent who questioned the doctrine of eternal punishment. Walker examines universalist and other arguments and the reasons many held such views privately rather than publicly.

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