in passing, Bell does say “there is hell later” along with a hell now (p. 79). And when he wrestles with the parable of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16), he mentions that the rich man is in “profound torment” (p. 77)—though he defines this torment as “living with the realities of not dying to” the unjust socioeconomic system in his previous life. But other than these two side comments, virtually everything Bell says about hell refers to the various hells on earth, the evil of this world: rape, addictions, child abuse, poverty, violence, and so on. A similar view is taken by Andrew Perriman,
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