For For a reader weighing evangelical arguments about hell and annihilationism. Not for one wanting pastoral comfort in grief.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
2 of 5worth a look
For the researcher
3 of 5worth your time
Difficulty
3 of 5demanding
A lecture on the doctrine of eternal punishment, against the annihilationist view.
How it proceeds
Philosophic3 of 5
Scriptural4 of 5
Experiential1 of 5
Sociological0 of 5
Historical2 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
Packer's Leon Morris Lecture for 1990, published that year by the Evangelical Alliance in Victoria, Australia, and printed in Crux 26.3 (September 1990). It addresses the doctrine of eternal punishment at a time when some evangelicals were proposing annihilationism, a view Packer opposed in print. Its argument in detail was not seen for this record.
