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Overview"Why would a perfectly good and loving God consign anyone to eternal suffering in hell? In Sinners in the Presence of a Loving God, R. Zachary Manis examines in detail the various facets of the problem of hell, considers the reasons why the usual responses to the problem are unsatisfying, and suggests how an adequate solution to the problem can be constructed.Historically, there are four standard explanations of the nature and purpose of hell: traditionalism, annihilationism, the choice model, and universalism. In Manis's assessment, all are deficient in some crucial respect. The alternative view that he develops and defends, the divine presence model, stands within the tradition that understands hell to be a state of eternal conscious suffering, but, Manis contends, avoids the worst problems of its competitors. The key idea is that the suffering of hell is not the result of a divine act that aims to inflict it, but rather is the way in which a sinful creature necessarily experiences the unmitigated presence of a holy God. Heaven and hell are not two ""places"" to which the saved and damned are consigned, respectively, but rather are two radically different ways in which different persons will experience the same reality of God's omnipresence once the barrier of divine hiddenness is finally removed." Full Product DetailsAuthor: R. Zachary Manis (Professor, Professor, Southwest Baptist University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 16.50cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.726kg ISBN: 9780190929251ISBN 10: 0190929251 Pages: 434 Publication Date: 11 July 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsA short review of this kind cannot do justice to the subtlety, breath, readability, insightfulness and rigor of Manis's Sinners in the Presence of a Loving God. Suffice it to say that no theologian or philosopher who is interested in the doctrine of hell, and paradoxically being spiritually nourished by reflecting upon it, can afford not to read this theologically sensitive and ecumenical manuscript. -- Jordan Wessling, Lindsey Wilson College, Columbia, International Journal of Systematic Theology Author InformationR. Zachary Manis (Ph.D., Baylor) is Professor of Philosophy at Southwest Baptist University. He is the co-author, with C. Stephen Evans, of Philosophy of Religion: Thinking About Faith, Second Edition. Manis lives in Bolivar, Missouri, with his wife Lisa and three children, Solomon, Nora, and Emmaline. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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