A Concentrated Hell-Fire Bibliography

Responding to John Crowder’s universalist “Consuming Fire” series caused me to refine some of my Hell-fire bibliography that I had originally laid down in my book The Gospel of Jesus Christ…

Augustine, The City of God (Penguin, 2003), ch. 21.26.

Jonathan Edwards, The Wrath of Almighty God. Ed. Don Kistler (Soli Deo Gloria, 1996).

—. The Torments of Hell: Jonathan Edwards on Eternal Damnation. Ed. William Nichols (International Outreach, 2006).

John Gerstner, Heaven and Hell: Jonathan Edwards on the Afterlife (Baker Books, 1984).

—. Repent or Perish: With a Special Reference to the Conservative Attack on Hell (Soli Deo Gloria, 1990).

John Wesley, “Of Hell.”

George Whitefield, “The Eternity of Hell-Torments.”

Robert Peterson, Hell on Trial: The Case for Eternal Punishment (P&R, 1995).

—, and Christopher Morgan, eds. Hell Under Fire (Zondervan, 2004).

—, and Christopher Morgan, eds. Is Hell for Real or Does Everyone Go to Heaven? (Zondervan, 2011).

W.G.T. Shedd, The Doctrine of Endless Punishment (The Banner of Truth Trust, 1986).

Thomas Vincent, Fire and Brimstone (Soli Deo Gloria, 1999).

Westminster Confession of Faith (The Banner of Truth Trust), chs. 10.3-4; 32-33.

A. W. Pink, The Attributes of God (Baker Books, 2006), ch. 16.

John Blanchard, The Truth About Hell (Evangelical Press, 2017).

—. Whatever Happened to Hell? (Evangelical Press, 1993).

John R. Rice, Hell! What the Bible Says About It (Sword of the Lord Publishers, 1942).

Thomas C. Oden, John Wesley’s Teachings, vol. 1 (Zondervan, 2012), p. 156ff.

—. John Wesley’s Teachings, vol. 2 (Zondervan, 2012), p. 180ff.

Randolph Foster, Objections to Calvinism As It Is (Schmul Publishing, 1998), ch. 8.

Kenneth J. Collins, The Theology of John Wesley (Abingdon Press, 2011), ch. 2.

Harry Buis, The Doctrine of Eternal Punishment (P&R, 1957).

John Walvoord, “The Literal View,” in Four Views on Hell (Zondervan, 1996).

Joel Beeke and Paul Smalley, eds. Reformed Systematic Theology: Church and the Last Things, vol. 4 (Crossway, 2019), ch. 39.

David Bercot, ed. A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs (Hendrickson Publishers, 1998), p. 242ff.