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Ep. 113 David Bentley Hart responds to Alan W. Gomes critique of That All Shall Be Saved

Grace Saves All: Christianity and Universal Salvation

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The Moral Idiocy of the Infernalist Doctrine

There's nothing excessive in my rhetoric there unless the reader is seized by a paying of conscience and begins directing the rhetoric at himself. I do not apologize for calling the infernalist doctrine more alliadiotic, but that is not what I'm talking about. The most effective technique for subduing the moral imagination is to teach it to mistake the contradictory for the paradoxical. And thereby to accept incoherence as profundity or moral idiocy as spiritual subtlety. But I'm totally unapologetic and I'm using the language necessary to stress the quality of the doctrine itself.

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