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Best books on Universalism

The Evangelical Universalist

Gregory Mcdonald, 2006


Universalism, the Prevailing Doctrine of the Christian Church During Its First Five Hundred Years: With Authorities and Extracts

John Wesley Hanson, 1899


Grace Saves All: The Necessity of Christian Universalism

David Artman, 2020


That All Shall Be Saved

David Bentley Hart, 2019


The Inescapable Love of God

Thomas Talbott, 1999


Varieties of Christian Universalism: Exploring Four Views

2023


Christian Universalism: God's Good News for All People

Eric Stetson, 2008


Her Gates Will Never Be Shut: Hope, Hell, and the New Jerusalem

Brad Jersak, 2009


Hope Beyond Hell: The Righteous Purpose of God's Judgment

Gerry Beauchemin, 2006


God's Final Victory: A Comparative Philosophical Case for Universalism

Eric Reitan, 2011


Razing Hell: Rethinking Everything You've Been Taught about God's Wrath and Judgment

Sharon L. Baker, 2010


Dare we hope

Hans Urs von Balthasar, 1988


Universalism Asserted: As the Hope of the Gospel On the Authority of Reason, the Fathers, and Holy Scripture

Thomas Allin, 1887


Patristic Universalism: An Alternative to the Traditional View of Divine Judgment

David Burnfield, 2013


What Is a Unitarian Universalist? My First Year in Unitarian Universalism

C. Mahoney, 2017


Universal Salvation? The Current Debate

2003


"All Shall Be Well": Explorations in Universal Salvation and Christian Theology, from Origen to Moltmann


Love Wins (Enhanced Edition): A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

Rob Bell, 2011


Universalism in America

Ernest Cassara, 1971


A Catholic Reading Guide to Universalism

Robert A. Wild, 2015


A Larger Hope?, Volume 2

Robin Parry, 2019


The Gospel of Universalism: Hope, Courage, and the Love of God

Tom Owen-Towle, 1993


Once Loved Always Loved

Andrew Hronich, 2023


The Unitarian Universalist Pocket Guide: Sixth Edition

2019


If Grace is True

Philip Gulley, 2003


The Intimate Way of Zen: Effort, Surrender, and Awakening on the Spiritual Journey

James Ishmael Ford, 2024


Be Daring. Be Different.: Reverse Engineering of Life. From who You are to who You Want to Be.

Christer Johnsen, 2023


The Unitarian Way

Phillip Hewett, 1985


Universalism One Hundred and One

Richard Trudeau, 2009


Raising Hell: Christianity's Most Controversial Doctrine Put Under Fire

Julie Ferwerda, 2014


The Unitarians: A Short History


Leonard Smith, 2006


The Gospel of Inclusion: Reaching Beyond Religious Fundamentalism to the True Love of God and Self

Carlton Pearson, 2007


Heaven's Doors: Wider Than You Ever Believed!

George W. Sarris, 2017


Visions of God: From the Near Death Experience


Ken R. Vincent, 1994


Christ-The Original Matrix

Timothy D. Carroll, 2020


Believable: Discover the God That Saves All

J. D. Atkinson, 2024


Spiritual Terrorism: Spiritual Abuse from the Womb to the Tomb


Boyd C. Purcell, 2008


Destined for Salvation: God's Promise to Save Everyone

Kalen K. Fristad, 2003


Universalism

John Wesley Hanson


Flames of Love: Hell and Universal Salvation

Heath Bradley, 2012


Universal salvation

Morwenna Ludlow


Jesus Undefeated: Condemning the False Doctrine of Eternal Torment

Keith Giles, 2019


The Judge Is the Savior: Towards a Universalist Understanding of Salvation

Jean Wyatt, 2015


Christianity Without Insanity: For Optimal Mental/Emotional/Physical Health

Boyd C. Purcell, 2012


The Universal Solution: Presenting Biblical Universalism As the Solution to the Debate Between Calvinists and Arminians

George Hurd, 2017


The Bride of the Lamb

Sergei Bulgakov


A Larger Hope? Universal Salvation from Christian Beginnings to Julian of Norwich

Ilaria Ramelli, 2019


Holy Hell: A Case Against Eternal Damnation

Derek Ryan Kubilus, 2024


The One Purpose of God: An Answer to the Doctrine of Eternal Punishment

Jan Bonda


And before all this is dismissed as "junk" here is Proverbs 18:13:-

He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.


Ignore the Word of your God at your own peril!

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LesDawsonsPiano · 70-79
I can understand the "no thanks". Some have held a theological position for many years, have identified it with "truth", and see anything other as necessarily being of falsehood.

Common objections are "what is the point of anything if everyone is saved", why a "Gospel"? Again, what of human free will? Then the "plain meaning of scripture" is cited, particular verses (even the words attributed to Jesus Himself) that point "conclusively" to the doctrine of an eternal hell.

I can only say that ALL such objections are dealt with in the Universalist literature. ALL. Dealt with not by philosophical arguments, but by the citation of Scripture. One has only to open the mind/heart to the possibility that "all shall be saved" to find that this is so.

Alas, many are determined to not "hear the matter" and thus, according to God's word in the Proverb cited, are in effect guilty of foolishness!

Possibly such people equate their own current understanding with salvation itself. In understanding "truly" they are "saved" and thus to open their hearts to any other understanding is, for them, to feel threatened by the God they profess to love. For so long they have presumed to be "guided by the spirit" in their understanding, that to actually open their mind/hearts to another interpretation of Scripture becomes a challenge they refuse to accept.

Who knows?
LesDawsonsPiano · 70-79
@BritishFailedAesthetic

So basically you hold the Proverb in contempt. The actual Word of God, offered to His children as being good advice, you dismiss as if it could not possibly apply to yourself.

So much for your professed love of His word!

 
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