The Last Will Be First: Divine Judgment in the Gospel of Mark - Hardcoverby M. John Patrick O'Connor (Author) To contemporary sensibilities, the idea of divine judgment can seem at best off putting, at worst a reason to jettison the biblical text altogether. Long gone are the days of Puritan preachers and their fiery, turn or burn tirades but should preachers and teachers wholly avoid the topic of divine judgment? In the words of Dostoyevsky's character Ivan in The Brothers Karamazov, "What good can hell do, since those