John Stott

===Annihilationism===
Stott tentatively held to [[annihilationism]], which is the view that the final state of the unsaved, known as hell, is death and destruction,{{sfn|Edwards|Stott|1988}} rather than everlasting conscious torment.<ref>{{citation |title=Third Anglican Homily: On the Salvation of Mankind by only Christ our Savior from sin and death everlasting.| url= http://anglicanlibrary.org/homilies/bk1hom03.htm| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181229001002/http://www.anglicanlibrary.org/homilies/bk1hom03.htm |url-status=live|archive-date= 29 December 2018}}</ref>  Stott said that: "the ultimate annihilation of the wicked should at least be accepted as a legitimate, biblically founded alternative to their eternal conscious torment."<ref>{{cite book |year=1987 |title=The Proceedings of the Conference on Biblical Inerrancy 1987 |location=Nashville, Tennessee |publisher=Broadman |page=106}} Quoted in {{harvnb|Pinnock|1996|p=162}}.</ref> This led to a heated debate within mainstream evangelical Christianity: some writers criticised Stott in very strong terms while others supported his views.{{sfn|Dudley-Smith|2001|p=353}}