The Wider Hope: Universalists Beyond the Denomination

The Spirits in Prison

The spirits in prison and other studies on the life after death

Studies on the life after death by the Dean of Wells, taking their title from the passage in 1 Peter about Christ's preaching to 'the spirits in prison.' Plumptre argues for an intermediate state in which growth, repentance, and the reach of Christ's redemption continue — the scholarly Anglican middle path of the wider hope, between Farrar's rhetoric and Allin's full universalism.

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