Thomas Talbott is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Willamette University in Salem, OR. He received his PhD from the University of California at Santa Barbara and his MDiv from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA. His evolving academic interests include philosophy of religion, philosophical theology, and, most recently, the ways in which Christian theologians have traditionally interpreted the Bible as a whole; and his published writings include The Doctrine of Everlasting Punishment (1990), an entry on universalism in The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology (2007), and an entry entitled Heaven and Hell in Christian Thought in the online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
