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Heaven in Ohio?
The Heavenly Tableby donald ray pollockdoubleday, 384 pages, $27.95 A book by Donald Ray Pollock is always an entertaining ride, by turns riveting, hilarious, revolting, and poignant. But reading...
Knocking on Heaven’s Door
I suppose it is appropriate for a book on eternal life to be long. Given the ground Alan Segal, a professor of Jewish studies at Columbia University, covers, Life...
Purgatory for Everyone
A few years ago, the journalist Philip Nobile wrote an article near the first anniversary of the death of Princess Diana in which he raised what he termed “an...
Doing Theodicy
Can God Be Trusted? Faith and the Challenge of Evil by john g. stackhouse, jr. oxford university press, 190 pages, $11.26 The problem of evil is a perennially baffling...
Do Only Christians Know?
Christians Among the Virtues: Theological Conversations with Ancient and Modern Ethics by stanley hauerwas and charles pinches university of notre dame press, 230 pages, $35 Virtue is making a...
The Formation of Hell
The Formation of Hell: Death and Retribution in the Ancient and Early Christian Worlds by alan e. bernstein cornell university press, 408 pages, $36.62 The author of this book...
