God will save all people through Jesus Christ. The Evangelical Universalist sets out to defend that bold claim with an array of arguments. The author maintains that the most coherent way to make sense of orthodox Christian faith is by recovering the ancient Christian tradition of universal restoration. For decades The Evangelical Universalist has shaped the debate on this important matter. Now in a revised and expanded edition, it contains new chapters on (i) universal salvation in early C...

"All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well."Lady Julian of NorwichUniversalism runs like a slender thread through the history of Christian theology. It has always been a minority report and has often been regarded as heresy, but it has proven to be a surprisingly resilient "idea." Over the centuries Christian universalism, in one form or another, has been reinvented time and time again.In this book an international team of schola...

"Eschatology is the explication of what must be true of the end, both of history and of the individual, if God is to be the God of the biblical faith. All eschatological statements can finally be reduced to, and their validity tested by, sentences beginning: 'In the end, God . . .'"J. A. T. RobinsonThe God revealed in Israel's story is the Lord of history--a God with good purposes for his creation and a God capable of bringing those purposes to pass. All biblical eschatology...