Christian universalism is a school of Christian theology focused around the doctrine of universal reconciliation – the view that all human beings will ultimately be saved and restored to a right relationship with God.
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13 Facts About Christian Universalism
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Term Christian universalism was used in the 1820s by Russell Streeter in the Christian Intelligencer of Portland, Maine—a descendant of Adams Streeter who had founded one of the first Universalist Churches on September 14,1785.
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Purgatorial Christian Universalism was the belief of some of the early church fathers, especially Greek-speaking ones such as Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and Gregory of Nyssa.
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Ramelli argues that this view is mistaken and that Christian Universalism theologians were the first people to proclaim that all will be saved and that their reasons for doing so were rooted in their faith in Christ.
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Christian Universalism Universalists assert that the doctrine of eternal Hell was not a part of Christ's teachings nor even the early church, and that it was added in.
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An important figure in early American Christian Universalism was George de Benneville, a French Huguenot preacher and physician who was imprisoned for advocating Universalism and later emigrated to Pennsylvania where he continued preaching on the subject.
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Christian Universalism largely passed into obscurity for the next few decades with the end of the Universalist Church as a separate denomination.
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However, the Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship remains as an organization for Christians from the Unitarian Universalist tradition and liberal Christians interested in Unitarianism and Universalism.
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Type of Christian Universalism that departs the least from orthodox or traditional Protestant Christian doctrine is Evangelical Universalism, called Biblical or Trinitarian Universalism.
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Liberal Christian Universalism emphasizes the all-inclusive love of God and tends to be more open to finding truth and value in non-Christian spiritual traditions compared to the attitude of other forms of Christian Universalism, while remaining generally Christ-centered.
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Some Liberal Christian Universalism Universalists believe in mystical philosophies such as panentheism and process theology, Gnostic or New Age ideas such as the preexistence and reincarnation of the soul, and New Thought ideas such as the law of attraction.
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Unitarian Universalist Christian Universalism Fellowship is an organization for Liberal Christian Universalism Universalists, especially those who belong to the Unitarian Universalist Association.
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Christian Universalism is a minister in the United Church of Christ, a liberal Christian denomination, but continues to believe in some ideas and practices of Pentecostal or Charismatic forms of Christianity.
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