Every Knee Should Bow: Biblical Rationales for Universal Salvation in Early Christian Thought - Tapa blanda

Harmon, Steven

 
9780761827191: Every Knee Should Bow: Biblical Rationales for Universal Salvation in Early Christian Thought
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ISBN 10: 0761827196 ISBN 13: 9780761827191
Editorial: University Press Of America, 2003

Sinopsis

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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Steven R. Harmon is Professor of Historical Theology at Gardner-Webb University School of Divinity in Boiling Springs, North Carolina.

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Editorial
University Press Of America
Año de publicación
2003
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0761827196
ISBN 13 
9780761827191
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Número de páginas
180
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