The Problem of Hell: Historical Revisionism in the Evangelical Christian Movement
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2013-05
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The Ohio State University
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American Evangelical Christians have created and used a specific history of the doctrine of hell in order to create and maintain their identities and boundaries. This project seeks to understand the modern Evangelical appropriation of the history of the doctrine of hell, arguing that the common understanding of hell as being uncontested and homogenous Christian doctrine is an un-nuanced argument, and one that does not do justice to the historical record. The project also investigates the specific reasons why this historical construction of hell has been created, and what happens when the history of hell is openly questioned in Evangelicalism.
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Hell, Evangelical, Identity, Rob Bell, Christian, Historical Revisionism, History, Boundaries