The Road to Hell

Contemporary Shifts in the Christian Doctrine of Hell in Anglo-American Philosophical Theology

This problem of hell is a specific form of the problem of evil. The possibility that perhaps a great number of people will end up in an eternal hell is a problem for the Christian who also confesses faith in an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent God. In this paper, I shall introduce issuantist views of hell and show that the basic formulations of this perspective do not provide an adeq...

Hell On Earth: A Modern Day Inferno in Cormac McCarthy's The Road

A Comparative Interpretation of Verses 105-108 in Surah Hood from the Perspective of “al-Mizan” and “al-Forqan” Commentaries about the Khulud (Eternity) of the People of the Heaven and the Hell

The Quran includes numerous verses that refer to the eternity of the people of the Heaven and the Hell. It speaks of a group of blissful people who reside in the Heaven forever and enjoy its blessings and another group of miserable people who are doomed be punished. There is disagreement among commentators and theologians over what eternity is and whether there is a difference between the etern...

بررسی تأویلات ابن عربی درباره آیات خلودو جاودانگی عذاب در قرآن

In Islam, the punishment of certain sins has been determined the abiding in Hell for ever, and many of Qurānic verses have approved the matter. Muslim interpreters and thinkers, disagree on the eternality of torment. Some have interpreted the abiding in Hell in the meaning of eternal chastisement and torture and some others, including Ibn al-،Arabi, have believed in the abiding in Hell but wi...

The Road to Hell: An Experimental Study of Intentions

Abstract: Do people care about intentions? Good intentions often do not produce good results when a person tries to do something nice for someone else. In this paper, we ask under what circumstances do people pay attention to outcomes and under what circumstances do they focus on intentions. While the aphorism in the paper’s title suggests that outcomes play a larger role than intentions, our s...

An Efficient State Recovery Attack on X-FCSR-256

We describe a state recovery attack on the X-FCSR-256 stream cipher of total complexity at most 2. This complexity is achievable by requiring 2 output blocks with an amortized calculation e ort of at most 2 table lookups per output block using no more than 2 table entries of precomputational storage.