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A review by hkihm
Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived by Rob Bell
4.0
I picked up this book because I adore Rob Bell's podcast and was interested in learning more about his theology. This book was not what I was expecting. I had heard this was the book that got him shunned by the evangelical community, and that it was because he argued for the acceptance of gay people and the crazy notion that they won't burn forever in Hell. That is not this book. He doesn't mention gay people specifically, but instead the salvation of all, all obviously including ALL. To me this was not a radical concept but after this book was published I guess he got a lot of angry evangelicals picketing his speaking engagements so apparently it is for some people.
It's worth a read. Rob Bell knows his bible and his biblical languages (one would hope, since he's a pastor), and uses them to translate and break down exactly what is meant by the terms heaven, hell, eternal life, and others, and how the people around during Jesus's time would've understood what he was talking about.
I took away a star because Bell's writing style is extremely informal - each paragraph is a single thought, and sometimes a single sentence or a fragment of a sentence. It's written as though he were giving a talk, and honestly I think it would work better as a speech to listen to rather than a book. I had to pretend he was talking in my head to get through it.
It's worth a read. Rob Bell knows his bible and his biblical languages (one would hope, since he's a pastor), and uses them to translate and break down exactly what is meant by the terms heaven, hell, eternal life, and others, and how the people around during Jesus's time would've understood what he was talking about.
I took away a star because Bell's writing style is extremely informal - each paragraph is a single thought, and sometimes a single sentence or a fragment of a sentence. It's written as though he were giving a talk, and honestly I think it would work better as a speech to listen to rather than a book. I had to pretend he was talking in my head to get through it.