A Letter to Rev. Bernard Whitman on the Term Gehenna
A letter to the Rev. Bernard Whitman, on the term Gehenna, rendered hell in the common version
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A focused skirmish in Balfour's long campaign over the vocabulary of hell: here the opponent is Bernard Whitman, a liberal Unitarian who still defended gehenna as future punishment. The exchange shows the Universalist argument pressing not only against orthodoxy but against the halfway positions of fellow liberals.
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| Author | Balfour, Walter, 1776-1852; Whitman, Bernard, 1796-1834 |
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| Published | 1834 |
| Publisher | Boston : T. Whittemore and B. B. Mussey |
| Subjects | Future punishment; Hell |
| OCLC | 8470623 on WorldCat |
| Section | Debates & Controversy |