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reformed purgatory – the refiner’s fire. This book is clearly aimed at laypeople from conservative evangelical backgrounds, as snippets of NT scholarship are juxtaposed with personal stories drawing on Chalke’s important work with the Oasis charity he founded. Through this work with vulnerable people from challenging backgrounds, Chalke has come to recognize the greater mystery and generosity of God, which shakes established Western certainties about theology in general and damnation in particular. While acknowledging this experiential learning, however, the book would have benefited from a stronger engagement with a greater range of more recent Pauline studies. One suspects, for example, that Chalke’s argument would have been significantly strengthened simply by listening to the ongoing dialogue between Douglas Moo on the one hand, rigorously defending a modified form of Protestant Orthodoxy, and Douglas Campbell on the other, with his hugely controversial study The Deliverance of God (Eerdmans, 2009). This might have helped steer the book away from the more sermonic interludes and occasionally grating comments on, for example, hermeneutics, or the slightly misleading readings of Luther and Calvin. But the book is worth reading for the account it offers of Chalke’s own journey, and it should serve its intended lay readership well.