Rob Bell and "Love Wins"

I haven't checked facebook and twitter recently. (Really, I have only been on twitter once so far. I got it, then it lay dormant. I'm too wordy for that forum of communication anyway.) But apparently they have been abuzz with controversy surrounding Rob Bell and his new book, "Love Wins". He put out a promotional video for the book - see below - that implies his view of hell may be universalist - basically that everyone gets into heaven. Of course, there are plenty of universalists running around, but if it turns out Bell is one, it will be not insignificant, as he has quite a large following among a certain demographic of evangelicals. He may just be the trendy tip of an iceberg-size shift among evangelicals in America. For a generation that is quick to let go of the idea of truth, it is not surprising that difficult doctrines are swept under the rug and implicitly or explicitly, as the case may be, denied.

I really don't have the energy to write too much of a critique, and I don't have anything too original to add to the conversation; therefore, I have written this entry more with the intent to inform and to point you to others who have recently written about this issue.



Here are links to a Christianity Today article on the subject as well as Justin Taylor's blog entry on the subject, which has received some attention.

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2011/marchweb-only/rob-bell-universalism.html?start=1

http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/2011/02/26/rob-bell-universalist/

The following is a blog entry by Kevin DeYoung. I found through Taylor's post, and it is a pretty strong critique of Bell.

http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevindeyoung/2011/02/28/bell-brouhaha/