A Universalist Vision of the Church
In the church one finds people from every tribe and tongue joined in one body. One day it will not simply be people called out from every tribe and nation…
In the church one finds people from every tribe and tongue joined in one body. One day it will not simply be people called out from every tribe and nation…
Paul knows nothing of a theology in which God does not ultimately achieve his purposes…. It is God’s covenant purpose that his world will one day be reconciled in Christ. …
In conclusion, let me ask you to hold in your mind traditional Christian visions of the future, in which many, perhaps the majority of humanity, are excluded from salvation forever. …
But what if I am wrong in thinking that God will save everyone? I said right at the start that I am a hopeful dogmatic universalist. That is to say…
What makes us universalists is not that we have unusually weak views of sin but unusually strong views of divine love and grace. Where sin abounds grace abounds all the…
If we think of hell as the state in which God allows the painful reality of sin to hit home, then we can understand both the terrible imagery used in…
God does not just happen to love, nor is it true that he chooses to be love to certain individuals, as if he could just as easily have chosen not…
This God’s love is a redemptive love; a patient, kind love that never gives up (I Corinthians 13). This Father is a shepherd who, as Jesus taught, does not give…