The Problem of Hell

by Jonathan L. Kvanvig

Book Overview

The doctrine of hell presents the most intractable version of the problem of evil, for though it might be argued that ordinary pain and evil can somehow be compensated for by the course of future experience, the pain and suffering of hell leads nowhere. This work develops an understanding of hell that is common to a broad variety of religious perspectives, and argues that the usual understandings of hell are incapable of solving the problem of hell...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019508487X
• ISBN13: 9780195084870
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.7" x 8.6"