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The Last Things
by Paul Helm
‘Concern for the present life has over-powered that for the life to come’. So writes Paul Helm in the Introduction to this timely study of the four ‘last things’: death, judgment, heaven and hell. His purpose is ‘not to speculate, or sentimentalise, but to state as sharply and starkly as possible the plain facts of the matter as
Publication
- Publisher
- The Banner of Truth Trust
- Date published
- Jan 1, 1989
- Print status
- In print
The Physical Book
- Binding
- Paperback
- Dust jacket
- No
- Total pages
- 168 pages
- ISBN-13
- 9781848717015
Reference
- E-book / audio
- ePub, Mobi
- Notes
- Listed on Banner's UK site only; not carried by the US store.
- Publisher page
- View at publisher
Contents
- Introduction
- I. RESPONSIBILITY TO GOD
- Limits
- Scripture and Responsibility
- Alarm and Comfort
- God’s gift of Time
- Regaining the Balance
- II. DEATH AND DYING
- The Inevitability of Death
- The Day of one’s Death
- The Finality of Death
- Dying and the Test of Faith
- Death and Bodily Resurrection
- Should a Believer want to Die?
- Summing Up
- III. JUDGMENT
- The Fact of Judgment
- The Just God
- Judgment according to Truth
- The Standard of Judgment
- Salvation by Works?
- IV. HEAVEN
- Continuity and Change
- Heaven as Redemptive, Fixed and Final
- Heaven as Rest, but also as Activity
- Critiques of Heaven
- Heaven as Vision and Reward
- V. HELL
- Opposing Hell
- Hell and Annihilation
- Differences in Hell?
- The Preaching of Hell
- VI. GLORY BEGUN BELOW
- I Corinthians 15
- Romans 8
- II Corinthians 4-5
- Some Conclusions
- General Index
- Index of Scripture References