[Rezension von: Hart, David Bentley, That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation]
Recent publications on the topic of universal salvation have once again brought into question what many consider to be a matter of settled Christian doctrine. And the contemporary debate is not without its fair share of vitriol. More strident voices on both sides have left behind the hopeful univers...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2020
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 71, Issue: 2, Pages: 995-998 |
| Review of: | That all shall be saved (New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2019) (Nutter, Taylor)
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| Summary: | Recent publications on the topic of universal salvation have once again brought into question what many consider to be a matter of settled Christian doctrine. And the contemporary debate is not without its fair share of vitriol. More strident voices on both sides have left behind the hopeful universalism of Hans Urs von Balthasar, dissatisfied with its agnosticism towards the particularities of the novissima. Eschatological doctrines, after all, speak not only to the destiny of the human being, but more importantly to the nature of God. As St Anselm of Canterbury once noted, if God has been revealed to be the Good itself, then certain fitting conclusions about the nature of God’s salvific work can be derived therefrom. David Bentley Hart takes this point to be fundamental in That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation, arguing for universalism on the basis of both faith in God’s Trinitarian self-revelation and those philosophical principles available to the natural light of human reason. The four discrete but interrelated meditations comprising the book thus exhibit faith seeking understanding. The first considers the doctrines of the divine attributes and creation from nothing, the second undertakes an interpretation of select portions of Scripture, and the last two focus on questions involving theological anthropology. One should not look to this text for a compendium of recent debates on the topic of eschatology or a detailed history of Christian universalism. Although deeply indebted to Church Fathers like Origen and Gregory of Nyssa, Hart advances his arguments without much reference to contemporary scholarly works. What references are made come within the body of the text and without citation, being explicitly acknowledged only in an appended four pages of ‘Acknowledgements and Bibliographical Notes’. Hart is clear about his purpose from the beginning—he intends to articulate his own argument that the inner logic of Christian faith either entails that all shall be saved or is incoherent. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flaa119 |