Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 4:36 am
I've just started reading Tom Gregg's book "Barth, Origen, and Universal Salvation - Restoring Particularity". Here's an interesting extract from the Introduction:
Looks like an interesting and useful book, of which more later...
...both theologians lived in a time when the rules of theology were not concretely set, having not reached Nicea by the time of Origen and having gone through the Enllightenment and liberal theology by the time of Barth. Both theologians correspondingly have to reason from first things, and so an insight into the inner logics of both is possible from a consideration of how each reaches his conclusions. Moreover, both theologians lived in times when Christianity was not the dominant and powerful monolith it was from the age of Constantine to the French Revolution, and living in such times raises directly the question of the salvation of those outside of the church and the simultaneous question that results of the place for Christian faith in that setting. It is the ecclesially focused natures of the two in pluralist settings which makes their theologies so interesting for the question of soteriology.
Looks like an interesting and useful book, of which more later...