george macdonald: justice, hell and atonement

An interesting discussion on judgement, hell, and atonement is going on at this theology blog. I'm interested in what people think about it.


The blog post is an analysis of a George MacDonald sermon that begins by asking us to think about the nature of justice and punishment... Are justice and punishment the same thing? This is an important question because when Christians speak of hell as "just" they are implicitly drawing an equivalence between the "punishment" of sin and God's "justice." But MacDonald wants to push back on that notion, to suggest that justice is a far richer concept than punishment. And if this is so, no amount of punishment in hell gets God closer to achieving justice.
CLICK HERE - for the post and discussion.