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| Acknowledgments |
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| Abbreviations |
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Presumptions and Possibilities |
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PART ONE---"WHO THEN CAN BE SAVED?": POSSIBILITIES IN BIBLICAL TRADITION |
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The Biblical Possibility of Ultimate Judgment |
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13 | (20) |
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33 | (35) |
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The Biblical Spectrum of Descriptions for Hell and Judgment |
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68 | (12) |
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80 | (27) |
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The Rich Man and Lazarus: Luke 16:19-31 |
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98 | (9) |
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The Biblical Possibility of Ultimate Redemption |
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107 | (10) |
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PART TWO---"EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW": PRESUMPTIONS AND POSSIBILITIES IN THEOLOGICAL TRADITION |
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Possibility and Hope in the Early Church |
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117 | (3) |
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Mercy Proposed: Apokatastasis in Clement, Origen, and Gregory |
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120 | (8) |
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Judgment Presumed: Infernalism in Augustine, Calvin, and Evangelical Tradition |
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128 | (14) |
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Purgatory: From Punishment to Divine Gaze |
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135 | (7) |
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Mercy Triumphs over Judgment: Eschatological Hope and von Balthasar's Dare |
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142 | (17) |
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Visions of Hell: Symbols and Reality |
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151 | (8) |
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PART THREE---"HER GATES WILL NEVER BE SHUT": HINTS OF ULTIMATE REDEMPTION IN REVELATION 21-22 |
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Approaching Revelation: Bifurcation and Consummation |
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159 | (6) |
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Eschatological Hope in Revelation 21-22 |
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165 | (15) |
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The Alpha and Omega: "Done" |
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180 | (5) |
| Addendum---A Word to Fellow Evangelicals |
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185 | (6) |
| Afterword---Hell: The Nemesis of Hope? |
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191 | (20) |
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| Bibliography |
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