TY - JOUR
AU1 - Matheson, Benjamin
AB - In response to the problem of Hell, Buckareff and Plug (Relig Stud 41:39–54, 2005; Relig Stud 45:63–72, 2009) have recently proposed and defended an ‘escapist’ conception of Hell. In short, they propose that the problem of Hell does not arise because God places an open-door policy on Hell. In this paper, I expose a fundamental problem with this conception of Hell—namely, that if there’s an open door policy on Hell, then there should be one on Heaven too. I argue that a coherent conception of Heaven cannot have such a policy. Hence, escapism is not an adequate response to the problem of Hell.
TI - Escaping Heaven
JF - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion
DO - 10.1007/s11153-013-9432-3
DA - 2013-10-15
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/escaping-heaven-cRrKIbEWsY
SP - 197
EP - 206
VL - 75
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -