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Tag Archives: universal salvation
Hell as Universal Purgatory
“A human being cannot fail to love the Christ who is revealed in him, and he cannot fail to love himself revealed in Christ” (The Bride of the Lamb, p. 459). This striking statement represents, perhaps, the most provocative claim … Continue reading
Posted in Eschatology, Sergius Bulgakov
Tagged Jerry Walls, John Paul II, Pope Benedict, purgatory, Sergius Bulgakov, universal salvation
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The Irresistible Truth of Final Judgment
And he shall come again with glory to judge both the quick and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end. The Great Assize—I am brought into the courtroom of the Divine Judge. The prosecutor presents a movie of my … Continue reading
Posted in Eschatology, Sergius Bulgakov
Tagged apocatastasis, final judgment, God, Jesus Christ, parousia, second coming, Sergius Bulgakov, universal salvation
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Tom Talbott Reviews ‘That All Shall Be Saved’ (Part IV)
by Thomas Talbott, Ph.D. Predestination unto Glory Christians have traditionally held that, because they are saved by grace, they can take no credit for their own salvation, all of the credit for which goes to God. As Paul himself put … Continue reading
‘That All Shall Be Saved’: An Introductory Review
Four years ago David Bentley Hart announced on Eclectic Orthodoxy that he subscribes to the doctrine of apokatastasis and hoped to write a book on the subject. I do not know if this was the first time he had ever … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, David B. Hart
Tagged apocatastasis, creatio ex nihilo, damnation, David Hart, eschatology, hell, libertarian freedom, universal salvation
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Suffering, Theodicy, and Apocatastasis
“What then, one might well ask, is divine providence?” David Bentley Hart poses this question after pondering upon the evil and suffering of the world in his beautiful little book The Doors of the Sea. Hart compares the orthodox Christian … Continue reading
Posted in David B. Hart
Tagged David Hart, determinism, evil, God, providence, suffering, theodicy, universal salvation
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Robert Buchanan and “The Ballad of Judas Iscariot”
By Addison Hodges Hart If there is a theme that is both central to Christian revelation and yet obscured by much that has for centuries passed for “sound” Christian theology, surely it is the idea—so evident in the teaching of … Continue reading
Preaching Apokatastasis: It’s All About Gospel!
I finally obtained a copy of the published version of my paper “Preaching Apokatastasis.” A few editorial changes were made before publication, but on the whole this is the same paper that I shared with everyone a couple of years … Continue reading
Posted in Eschatology, Preaching
Tagged apocatastasis, gospel, preaching, Robert Jenson, unconditional promise, universal salvation
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