Aion-Aionios

A philological monograph on the two Greek words — aion and aionios — that English Bibles render 'everlasting' and 'eternal.' Surveying classical authors, the Septuagint, and the New Testament, Hanson argues the words denote an age or indefinite duration, not endlessness, and that the doctrine of endless punishment therefore rests on a mistranslation. The argument over these words was central to the Universalist controversy, and this little book is its fullest popular statement.

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