Do the early Christians think God is more just and determined to punish or more merciful and determined to forgive? I deal with the matter in one of the chapters in my next scholarly book, Journeys to Heaven and Hell: Tours of the Afterlife in the Early Christian Tradition, coming out in April with Yale University Press. The book has been done for months now, and I am right now reading through the final page proofs sent to me by the press – making final corrections of typos before it heads into production. Read by Petra Ortiz
Gold Q&A - July 2022
In the past couple of posts I have talked about early Christian “docetists,” those who were so convinced that Jesus was completely God that...
Bart emphasizes that the parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man indicates more about wealth and poverty than about the afterlife. Read by John...