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The Inescapable Love of God
- Second Edition
- Narrated by: George W. Sarris
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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Summary
Will the love of God save us all? In this audiobook, Thomas Talbott seeks to expose the extent to which the Western theological tradition has managed to twist the New Testament message of love, forgiveness, and hope into a message of fear and guilt.
According to the New Testament proclamation, he argues, God's love is both unconditional in its nature and unlimited in its scope; hence, no one need fear, for example, that God's love might suddenly turn into loveless hatred at the moment of one's physical death. For God's love remains the same yesterday, today, and forever. But neither should one ignore the New Testament theme of divine judgment, which Talbott thinks the Western theological tradition has misunderstood entirely. He argues in particular that certain patterns of fallacious reasoning, which crop up repeatedly in the works of various theologians and Bible scholars, have prevented many from appreciating St. Paul's explicit teaching that God is merciful to all in the end.
This second edition of Talbott's classic work is fully revised, updated, and substantially expanded with new material.
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- Thamesis
- 09-05-23
Good but with some very contentious views about evil.
I thought this was a good, well-argued and compassionate work but, and I am sorry to say this about some American authors, they tell you something ten times when just once will do. The arguments he puts forward are excellent but I became infuriated when I came to the last chapter where he says horrendous suffering was a way of “perfecting us “ for the next world. He called it “temporary” suffering but tell that to someone who spent the rest of their lives tormented by being in a Japanese POW camp after being forced to watch his brother-in-law beheaded there (I knew this man) or the author Primo Levi who was so traumatised by his experiences in Auschwitz that, decades later, he could stand no more and killed himself. Add to that the daily agony some suffer from health issues and this idea of us being “perfected” by means of “temporary” suffering outraged me. So, that is a “loving” God? So, very overlong but a generally impressive work and the narrator was excellent.
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- Steve Townsend
- 02-06-24
A bright hope for all
This is a wonderful book. I loved the mix of theology and philosophy, both of which I believe necessary when pondering God, life and life after death. The use of both logic and scripture was very much appreciated.
it is a book I will return to again for encouragement but also to grapple with some of the material I did not quite get the first time around.
if you are at all concerned or in doubt of the seemingly prevailent christian dogma in the west that only a few selected elites will make it into a blissful afterlife and countless billions await eternal torture, this book will be a delight.
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