Evil, suffering, death, and afterlife
We need to have serious, sustained, reasoned, civil discussions around this important aspect of the Christian faith.
Jaime's publications on death and the afterlife
Book
Death and the Afterlife in the New Testament. London: T & T Clark, 2006.
Book chapters
“Can Faithful Christians Disagree on Hell?” Pages 57-62 in Hellrazed? Edited by Kevin Miller. Kimberley, BC: Kevin Miller XI Productions, 2017. Faithful_Christians_PDF_for_Download.
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“‘I Will Raise [Whom?] Up on the Last Day’: Anthropology as a Feature of Johannine Eschatology.” Pages 29-53 in New Currents Through John: A Global Perspective. Edited by Francisco Lozada and Tom Thatcher. Leiden: Brill, 2006. (Paperback: Atlanta: SBL, 2006.)
Encyclopedia article
“Afterlife, Judaism and Christianity.” Pages 156-161 in Wiley-Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Edited by Roger S. Bagnall, Kai Broderson, Craige B. Champion, Andrew Erskine, and Sabine R. Huebner. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. This article appears as “Afterlife, Judaism and Christianity,” pages 1-5 in the online, subscription-only, edition of Encyclopedia of Ancient History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).
Material in popular venues
“Can Faithful Christians Disagree on Hell?” Pages 57-62 in Hellrazed? Edited by Kevin Miller. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017.
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“The Afterlife: Considering Heaven and Hell.” Word & World 31, no. 1 (2011): 65-74. Free online
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“‘Evil, Suffering, and Death in the New Testament’ Syllabus.” Christian Century 124, no. 4 (February 20, 2007): 33.
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“Death.” In The CEB Women’s Bible. Nashville: Common English Bible/Abingdon, 2016. Edited by Jaime Clark-Soles (New Testament), Judy Fentress-Williams, Ginger Gaines-Cirelli, Christine Chakoian, and Rachel Baughman.
Appearances in other media
“Dying to Live.” TEDxSMU. Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, April 11, 2014. Watch on YouTube.
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Interviewee in the documentary film Hellbound? Directed by Kevin Miller. Produced by David Rempel. September, 2012.​
Course syllabi for “Evil, Suffering, and Death in the New Testament”
Other recommendations
On the afterlife
Gulley, Philip and James Mulholland. If Grace Is True: Why God Will Save Every Person. Reprint Edition. San Francisco: HarperOne, 2010.
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Linn, Dennis, Sheila Fabricant Linn, and Matthew Linn. Good Goats: Healing Our Image of God. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist, 1994.
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Nichols, Terence. Death and Afterlife: A Theological Introduction. Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2010.
On Satan and angels
Garrett, Susan R. No Ordinary Angel: Celestial Spirits and Christian Claims about Jesus. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
On hell and heaven
Baker, Sharon. Razing Hell. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2010.
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Russell, Jeffrey Barton. A History of Heaven. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.
