scholars were not and are not comfortable with the idea of a God of wrath. Divine anger seemed to them to be a primitive, base, an unworthy disposition of God, and certainly inconsistent with the revelation of His love in Jesus Christ. Indeed, it has been more than the scholars who have balked at the doctrine of God’s wrath. Our whole age is banking on the hope that the God who is there is a God of love, period. The topics of judgment and punishment are, if not outright denied, studiously avoided.