Bauckham, and N.T. Wright. Already a younger generation of devout scholars are publishing their biblical reasons for rejecting the traditional view of eternal torment. In addition to John Stackhouse, Jr., this group includes J. Gregory Crofford, John R. Franke, and Gregory Boyd, When wrestling with the “Voice” back in the late 1970s, I regarded it a fact beyond dispute that no one would read a five-hundred-page scholarly book on the subject of final punishment. No one had heard of me, so authorship was