Tag: Belief in hell

Belief in hell dips, but some say they’ve already been there

Aug 15, 2008

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by

mwkruse

in Eschatology, Theology

Pew Forum: Belief in hell dips, but some say they've already been there …For Long, hell is all too real — a temporary torment in this life, an endless agony in the next. But for more and more Americans, hell is a myth. In a survey released this summer by the Pew Forum on Religion…
“Going Bunco” Martin Marty

Apr 9, 2007

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by

mwkruse

in Religion, Theology, Trends: Social

Christian Century: Going Bunco by Martin Marty (HT Presbyweb) Draw up your chairs, younger ones, and I will describe a moment in the Age of Innocence, back in late-medieval time of 1945-1949. Bring your chairs in close so you can be sure you are hearing right. Let me set the scene: it is New Year's…