Eternal Hell is Nonsensical — David Bentley Hart

David Bentley Hart argues that the doctrine of eternal hell is logically incompatible with the Christian claims that God is perfectly good, just, and loving.

In this excerpt from That All Shall Be Saved, Hart challenges the coherence of the traditional doctrine of eternal torment, asking whether an infinite punishment for finite beings can be reconciled with the meaning of justice, love, or goodness. He also questions whether the idea of endless conscious torment even has intelligible moral or rational content.

David Bentley Hart is an Eastern Orthodox theologian, philosopher, and scholar of religion. He is known for his work in theology, philosophy, and patristics, and for books such as That All Shall Be Saved, The Beauty of the Infinite, and his translation of the New Testament.

This video features a reading from That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation.

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