
Every Knee Should Bow: Biblical Rationales For Universal Salvation In Early Christian Thought
In Every Knee Should Bow, Steven Harmon explores the manner in which Clement of Alexandria (ca. 160-215 C.E.), Origen (ca. 185-ca. 251 C.E.), and Gregory of Nyssa (331/340-ca. 395 C.E.) appealed to Scripture in developing rationales for their concepts of apokatastasis, the hope that all rational creatures will ultimately be reconciled to God. Harmon argues that these patristic universalists mainta...
Paperback: 180 pages
Publisher: UPA (November 17, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0761827196
ISBN-13: 978-0761827191
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches
Amazon Rank: 3806624
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“Every Knee Should Bow provides an overview of the the views of Clement of Alexandria (ca. 160 - 215), Origen (ca. 185 - ca. 251), and Gregory of Nyssa (331/340 - ca. 395) regarding the belief that all rational beings will eventually be saved. All th...”
ned their hope for "a wideness in God's mercy" primarily because they believed this hope was the most coherent reading of the biblical story. Although Hellenistic thought might also have suggested an eschatology in which the end corresponds to the beginning, the eschatologies of these ancient Christian theologians were shaped mainly by the Hebrew story of creation, fall, redemption, and consummation, read through the lenses of the church's experience of God's saving work in the person of Jesus Christ. These early attempts to take seriously the biblical story's affirmations of the divine intention to save all people on the one hand, and of judgment and hell on the other, have a certain timeless relevance. In a context not unlike that of the late antique Christian world, the postmodern church again wrestles with these tensions in the biblical story in the midst of religious pluralism.
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