Time magazine, not long ago, ran a cover story 'What If There is No Hell?' that centered on Rob Bell's Love Wins. Bell's book highlights a major trend that is affecting Evangelical Churches in the US and around the world: a growing acceptance of universalism (i.e., universal salvation) as an acceptable evangelical belief. From whence does this trend arise? How and why has it taken hold? In this lecture McClymond traces this theological idea through its ancient roots and modern revival, and illuminates the fundamental theological questions that it raises, including the nature of God, human free will, the gravity of sin, and the significance of Christ's suffering. An appropriate Christian response, McClymond argues, must not settle with citing the relevant scriptures and reaffirming eternal punishment. It must include a deeper reflection on the meaning of Christ's cross and the difference between a church that preaches and practices 'costly grace' and one that preaches and practices 'cheap grace.'."
Original Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-aZbNg_OIg
Michael J. McClymond: Associate Professor of Theological Studies, Saint Louis University
Origen of Alexandria (Origen Adamantius: 184/185 – 253/254), Jacob Boehme (Jakob Böhme: probably April 24, 1575 – November 17, 1624), Friedrich Schiller ( Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller: 10 November 1759 – 9 May 1805), William Law (1686 – 9 April 1761), George MacDonald (10 December 1824 – 18 September 1905), Adrienne von Speyr (20 September 1902 - 17 September 1967), Hans Urs von Balthasar (12 August 1905 – 26 June 1988)

