In a First Things combox discussion about Catholics who become Baptists, Terry Mattingly asks: On your second point: Is it safe to say that the post-Vatican II Church is functionally Universalist?
In Hell Bent: How the Fear of Hell Holds Christians Back from a Spirituality of Love, Bob Jones University (BJU) alumnus and ...
Hell is talked about cautiously, if at all, in mainline churches. Yet the notion of a divinely ordained place of punishment for the wicked after death is deeply embedded in the Christian imagination.