Once you begin exploring the topic of hell, it isn’t long before you realize enough has been written and spoken about the topic to fill a bottomless pit. From theologians to pastors to the average person on the street, it seems like everyone has something to say about hell. We have assembled a wide range of books, blogs, web sites, videos and other materials that have influenced our thinking about hell throughout the making of this film. We don’t agree with or endorse all of the resources on this page. Far from it! But to be fair, we have included a broad spectrum of opinion, from hardcore Infernalists to convinced Univeralists, from the ultra-serious to the borderline ridiculous. We keep adding new material, so keep checking back here to see what’s new!
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- Does Hell Matter in the Christian Tradition?
- Healing Spiritual Terrorism
- Hellbound on Atlanta Live
- Everyone Is Going to Heaven
- What is Christian Universalism?
- Why We Need Hell
- MSNBC Host Makes Rob Bell Squirm
- Love Wins: None Left Behind
- Love Wins: A New Split in Protestant Evangelicalism
- No Hell?: A Mega-Church heretic takes on Evangelical Orthodoxy
- Faith and Theology: Will Hell Be Empty
- Evangelicalism Won’t Split: It’s Eroding
- Kingdom Bible Studies
- J. Preston Eby on why God will save everyone
- What is God’s Relationship to People who are in Hell
- What is Hell Like? Does it Even Exist? (NT Wright)
- Where is Hell Located? (NT Wright)
- Pastor Loses Job After Questioning Hell’s Existence
- John Piper: Preaching Hell
- Why I don’t Like Systematic Theologies: The Problem of Hell
- Is Osama Bin Laden Hellbound Brian McLaren?
- Exegeting Hell with Preston Sprinkle
- The Case for Annihilationism (Greg Boyd)
- Hell is the Wrath of God in Effect (Mark Driscoll)
- You Are in Danger: Heaven and Hell (Mark Driscoll)
- Experimental Theology: Universal Reconciliation - Some Questions and Answers (Richard Beck)
- Hell: We Can’t Afford to Get it Wrong (Francis Chan)
- What Francis Chan (And His Ilk) Get so Terribly Wrong About Hell
- Hell by Peter Kreeft
- Christ the Conqueror of Hell
- Honest Questions and Answers About Hell
- The Real Meaning of Lazarus and the Rich Man
- The Doctrine of Hell Breeds Arrogance
- To Hell or Not to Hell, That is the Question
- What the Hell (Conversant Life Blog)
- What the Pope Really Said About Hell
- What About Hell: A Critical Look at the Doctrine of Hell
Books
- All You Want to Know About Hell: Three Christian Views of Gods Final Solution to the Problem of Sin
- Healing the Gospel: A Radical Vision for Grace, Justice, and the Cross
- Beyond Retribution: A New Testament Vision for Justice, Crime, and Punishment
- Confessions of a Bible Thumper: My Homebrewed Quest for a Reasoned Faith
- Hell No! Extinguishing Christian Hellfire -- John Shore
- Hell and Heaven in Narrative Perspective -- Andrew Perriman
- What the Hell: How Did We Get it So Wrong? Eternity, Grace, and the Message of Love -- Jackson Baer
- Razing Hell: Rethinking Everything You've Been Taught About God's Wrath and Judgment -- Sharon L. Baker
- Dancing Past the Dark: Distressing Near-Death Experiences -- Nancy Evans Bush
- Hope Beyond Hell The Righteous Purpose of God's Judgment -- Gerry Beauchemin
- Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality -- Richard Beck
- The Denial of Death -- Ernest Becker
- Escape from Evil -- Ernest Becker
- Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived -- Rob Bell
- Whatever Happened to Hell? -- John Blanchard
- Violence, Hospitality, and the Cross: Reappropriating the Atonement Tradition -- Hans Boersma
- Satan & the Problem of Evil: Constructing a Trinitarian Warfare Theodicy -- Gregory A. Boyd
- Adventures in Missing the Point: How the Culture-Controlled Church Neutered the Gospel -- Tony Campolo and Brian D. McLaren
- Erasing Hell: What God said about eternity, and the things we made up -- Francis Chan and Preston Sprinkle
- Peace Is the Way: Bringing War and Violence to an End -- Deepak Chopra
- Death and the Afterlife in the New Testament -- Jaime Clark-Soles
- Four Views on Hell -- William V. Crockett
- Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe -- Mark Driscoll
- Raising Hell: Christianity's Most Controversial Doctrine Put Under Fire -- Julie Ferwerda
- The Fire That Consumes: A Biblical and Historical Study of the Doctrine of Final Punishment. 3rd edition, fully updated, revised and expanded -- Edward Fudge
- Two Views of Hell: A Biblical & Theological Dialogue -- Edward Fudge
- God Wins: Heaven, Hell, and Why the Good News Is Better than Love Wins -- Mark Galli
- I See Satan Fall Like Lightning -- Rene Girard
- Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World -- Rene Girard
- The War on Terrorism and the Terror of God -- Lee Griffith
- If Grace Is True: Why God Will Save Every Person (Plus) -- Philip Gulley and James Mulholland
- Beyond Death: Exploring the Evidence for Immortality -- Gary R. Habermas and J. P. Moreland
- Compassionate Eschatology: The Future as Friend -- Michael Hardin
- The Jesus Driven Life: Reconnecting Humanity With Jesus -- Michael Hardin
- Her Gates Will Never Be Shut: Hell, Hope, and the New Jerusalem -- Brad Jersak
- Stricken by God?: Nonviolent Identification and the Victory of Christ -- Brad Jersak and Michael Hardin
- Shades of Sheol: Death and Afterlife in the Old Testament -- Philip S. Johnston
- Hell Is Real (But I Hate to Admit It) -- Brian Jones
- A Better Atonement: Beyond the Depraved Doctrine of Original Sin -- Tony Jones
- Handbook of Christian Apologetics -- Peter Kreeft and Ronald K. Tacelli
- The Problem of Hell -- Jonathan L. Kvanvig
- The Great Divorce -- C. S. Lewis
- "All Shall Be Well": Explorations in Universal Salvation and Christian Theology, from Origen to Moltmann -- Gregory McDonald
- The Evangelical Universalist -- Gregory McDonald
- The Last Word and the Word after That: A Tale of Faith, Doubt, and a New Kind of Christianity -- Brian D. McLaren
- The Coming of God -- Jurgen Moltmann
- Hell and its Afterlife -- Isabel Moreira
- Hell Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents Eternal Punishment -- Christopher S. Morgan, Robert A. Peterson
- Jonathan Edwards and Hell -- Christopher Morgan
- Hell Yes / Hell No -- John R. Noe
- Chrysalis Crucible -- Wayne Northey
- Death and Afterlife: Perspectives of World Religions -- Hiroshi Obayashi
- Encyclopaedia of Hell: An Invasion Manual for Demons Concerning the Planet Earth and the Human Race Which Infests It -- Martin Olson
- Damned - Chuck Palahniuk
- Universal Salvation?: The Current Debate -- Robin A. Parry
- Hell on Trial: The Case for Eternal Punishment -- Robert A. Peterson
- Freedom to Believe -- Lazar Puhalo
- The Nature of Heaven and Hell According to the Holy Fathers -- Lazar Puhalo
- Soul the Body and Death -- Lazar Puhalo
- God's Final Victory: A Comparative Philosophical Case for Universalism -- Eric Reitan
- Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back -- Frank Schaeffer
- Sex, Mom, and God: How the Bible's Strange Take on Sex Led to Crazy Politics--and How I Learned to Love Women (and Jesus) Anyway -- Frank Schaeffer
- The Doctrince of Endless Punishment: a 19th Century Response to Rob Bell and Love Wins -- G. T. Shedd
- Hell No! Extinguishing Christian Hellfire -- John Shore
- Disturbing Divine Behavior: Troubling Old Testament Images of God -- Eric A. Siebert
- Can God Be Trusted?: Faith and the Challenge of Evil -- John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
- The Inescapable Love of God -- Thomas Talbott
- The History of Hell -- Alice K. Turner
- The Encyclopedia of Hell -- Miriam Van Scott
- Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation -- Miroslav Volf
- The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World -- Miroslav Volf
- Hell: The Logic Of Damnation -- Jerry L. Walls
- Purgatory: The Logic of Total Transformation -- Jerry L. Walls
- 23 Minutes In Hell: One Man's Story About What He Saw, Heard, and Felt in that Place of Torment -- Bill Wiese
- The Shack -- William Paul Young
- Martin Zender Goes to Hell: A Critical Look at an Un-Criticized Doctrine -- Martin Zender
Websites
- www.thinkabouthell.com
- www.thechristianleft.org
- www.rethinkinghell.com
- www.beyondtheboxpodcast.com
- www.experimentaltheology.blogspot.com
- www.preachingpeace.org
- Dean Johnson Ministries
- Colloquium on Violence & Religion
- www.evangelicaluniversalist.com
- www.clarionjournal.typepad.com
- www.brianmclaren.net
- www.not1lost.org
- Universal Reconciliation Questions and Answers
- www.tentmaker.org
- www.godslovewins.com
- www.christianuniversalism.com
- www.hopebeyondhell.net
- The Pathfinder
- The Beautiful Heresy
- Imagine There's No Satan
- Catholics and Protestants in Hell?
- www.dancingpastthedark.com
- www.erasinghell.com
- www.perichoresis.org
- www.scaredofhell.blogspot.ca
- www.soulchoiceministries.org
- www.edwardfudge.com/written/fire.html
- www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/
- www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevindeyoung/
- www.gregboyd.org
- Mark Driscoll
- Restore All Things
- The Christian Universalist Association
- www.salvationofall-av.org/
- Universalism and the Bible