The Fire That Consumes (alternate reference)

Edward Fudge's The Fire That Consumes presents a biblical and historical defense of annihilationism, analyzing key Hebrew and Greek terms and patristic sources to argue that the wicked ultimately perish rather than suffer eternal conscious torment.

The book energized modern conditionalist discussions and inspired conferences and further scholarship advocating this interpretation.

Fudge engages objections and aims to show that the weight of biblical evidence supports conditional immortality.

The work remains a central resource for those exploring alternatives to traditional eternal torment doctrines.