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The Concept of Hell

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  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. Benjamin McCraw

    1. University of South Carolina, Upstate, USA

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  2. Robert Arp
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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Benjamin W. McCraw, Robert Arp
      Pages 1-11

  4. Justifying Hell?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. Hell as Punishment: Pitfalls for the Pit

      • Galen A. Foresman
      Pages 83-98

    3. Leibniz’s Stoic and Spinozistic Justification for Eternal Damnation

      • Charles Joshua Horn
      Pages 99-112

    4. Kant, Morality, and Hell

      • James Edwin Mahon
      Pages 113-126

    5. Hell Is For Children? Or The Violence of Inculcating Hell

      • Jeffrey E. Stephenson, Jerry S. Piven
      Pages 127-145

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 223-238
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What is the nature of Hell? What role(s) may Hell play in religious, political, or ethical thought? Can Hell be justified? This edited volume addresses these questions and others; drawing philosophers from many approaches and traditions to analyze and examine Hell.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of South Carolina, Upstate, USA

    Benjamin McCraw

About the editors

Robert Arp, University of Missouri-Kansas City, US. Nathan Conroy, Texas Tech University, US. Jeffrey Ewing, University of Oregon, US. Galen Foresman, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, US. Charles Joshua Horn, University of Wisconsin, US. Randall M. Jensen, Northwestern College, US. James Edwin Mahon, Washington and Lee University, US. Benjamin W. McCraw, University of South Carolina, US. James M. McLachlan, Western Carolina University, US. Nicolas Michaud, Florida State College, US. Jonathon O'Donnell, SOAS, University of London, UK. Jerry S. Piven, Independent Scholar Andrew Rogers, Texas Tech University, US. Frank Scalambrino, University of Dallas, US. Jeffrey E. Stephenson, Montana State University, US. Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte, Pontifical University Antonianum, Italy.

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