Jerry L. Walls
Author · 10 books
Jerry L. Walls (PhD, University of Notre Dame), a world-class expert on the afterlife and a sought-after speaker, has written for Christianity Today, First Things, and Christian Century. He has appeared on NPR’s Talk of the Nation and in the documentary film Hellbound? Walls, professor of philosophy and scholar in residence at Houston Baptist University in Houston, Texas, is the coauthor of Why I Am Not a Calvinist and the Christianity Today Book Award Winner Good God: The Theistic Foundations of Morality. He has authored or edited a dozen books, including a trilogy on the afterlife—Hell: The Logic of Damnation, Purgatory: The Logic of Total Transformation, and Heaven: The Logic of Eternal Joy—and is a senior speaking fellow for the Morris Institute for Human Values.
Books
Heaven
The Logic of Eternal Joy
2002
Hell
The Logic of Damnation
1992
Two Dozen (or so) Arguments for God
The Plantinga Project
2018
Basketball and Philosophy
Thinking Outside the Paint
2007
C. S. Lewis as Philosopher
Truth, Goodness, and Beauty
2024
Purgatory
The Logic of Total Transformation
2011
Roman but Not Catholic
What Remains at Stake 500 Years after the Reformation
2017
Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory
Rethinking the Things That Matter Most
2015
The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology
2007
Why I Am Not a Calvinist
2004
