A Larger Hope?, Volume 1: Universal Salvation from Christian Beginnings to Julian of Norwich Ramelli Ilaria L. E.
A Larger Hope?, Volume 1: Universal Salvation from Christian Beginnings to Julian of Norwich Ramelli Ilaria L. E. In the minds of some, universal salvation is a heretical idea that was imported into…
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A Larger Hope?, Volume 1: Universal Salvation from Christian Beginnings to Julian of Norwich Ramelli Ilaria L. E.
In the minds of some, universal salvation is a heretical idea that was imported into Christianity from pagan philosophies by Origen (c.185-253/4). She maintains that Christian theologians were the first people to proclaim that all will be saved and that their reasons for doing so were rooted in their faith in Christ. Ilaria Ramelli argues that this picture is completely mistaken.
Ramelli traces the Christian roots of Origen's teaching on apokatastasis. She demonstrates that, in fact, the idea of the final restoration of all creation (apokatastasis) was grounded upon the teachings of the Bible and the church's beliefs about Jesus' total triumph over sin, death, and evil through his incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension. She argues that he was drawing on texts from Scripture and from various Christians who preceded him, theologians such as Bardaisan, Irenaeus, and Clement.