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The decline of hell: seventeeth-century discussions of eternal..

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Author concludes, “The religious movements and their leaders that I have described in these last three chapters… were one starting-point of a religious and ethical development which on the whole has been successful. Eternal torment is nowadays an unpopular doctrine among most kinds of Christians; the God of love has nearly driven out the God of vengeance; vindictive justice has had to take refuge among the advocates of hanging; and it is no longer considered respectable to enjoy the infliction of even the justest punishment..

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Z. HANDIMAN

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236.25 WAL d

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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press., 1964

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vii, 272p.; 22 cm.

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English

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HELL

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