Every Knee Should Bow

Biblical Rationales for Universal Salvation in Early Christian Thought

Автор: Steven R. Harmon

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: University Press of America

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In Every Knee Should Bow, Steven Harmon explores the manner in which Clement of Alexandria (ca. 160-...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Steven R. Harmon

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2003

страници

180

EAN

9780761827191

ISBN

0761827196

Enbook ID

04913072

Издател

University Press of America

Теглоt

240

Размери

140 x 216 x 14

Пълно описание

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 maintained 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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