McClymond Michael J. - The Devils Redemption : 2 Volumes

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Prologue

Volume 1

Introduction

0.1. Uncovering a Gnostic-Kabbalistic-Esoteric Tradition

0.2. Linking Esoteric Universalism in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

0.3. Two Christian Strands: Origenism and Bhmism

0.4. The Theme of Divine Self-Alienation and Self-Return

0.5. Contrasts between Esoteric and Exoteric Christian Theologies

0.6. Theological Issues: Preexistence, Wisdom, Punishment, and Rationalism

0.7. The Late Twentieth-Century Tilt toward Universalism

0.8. Divine Drama in Bulgakov, Barth, Balthasar, Tillich, and Moltmann

0.9. Scripture, Reason, and Experience in Universalist Argumentation

0.10. A Theological Irony: Universalisms Eclipse of Grace

1. Final Salvation: Church Teachings and Newer Views

1.1. Mainline Protestants: The Turn toward Universalism

1.2. Roman Catholics: Traditionalists versus Hopeful Universalists

1.3. Eastern Orthodoxy: Official Teachings and Private Opinions

1.4. Evangelicals, Pentecostals, and Charismatics: Newcomers to Universalism

1.5. Should Everyone Be Told? Universalism as a Secret Gospel

1.6. Christs Descent to the Dead and the Larger Hope

1.7. The Old Catholic Purgatory and the New

1.8. Protestants Debating Hell: From the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries

1.10. British Evangelicals and the Debate over Conditionalism

1.11. Summary and Conclusions on Church Teachings

2. Ancient Afterlives: The Gnostic, Kabbalistic, and Esoteric Roots of Christian Universalism

2.1. Near Eastern and Greco-Roman Cultures: From Shadows to Immortal Souls

2.2. Jewish Afterlives: Bodies, Souls, Resurrection, and Judgment

2.3. Evidence for Second- and Third-Century Gnostic Universalism

2.4. Medieval Gnosis: Catharist Universalism

2.5. Core Concepts of Kabbalah

2.6. Universalist Tendencies in Kabbalah

2.7. Early Christian Cabala: Guillaume Postel

2.8. Dutch Jews in the 1600s: The Morteira-Aboab Debate on Eternal Punishment

2.9. Multilevel Heavens in Swedenborgianism and Mormonism

2.10. The Universalism of Sadhu Sundar Singh

2.11. Gnostic and Esoteric Models for Reunion with the Divine

2.12. Summary and Conclusions on Gnostic, Kabbalistic, and Esoteric Universalisms

3. The End Is like the Beginning: Origen and Origenism, 200410 CE

3.1. The Modern Rehabilitation of Origen and Origenism

3.2. The Question of Origens Texts

3.3. Clement of Alexandria and the Question of Universalism

3.4. Origens Intellectual Backdrop and Cosmic Vision

3.5. The Vexatious Issue of Preexistent Souls

3.6. Origens Theology: God, Souls, Angels, Demons, Salvation, and the Eschaton

3.7. Origens Biblical Interpretation and the Cleansing Fire of Conscience

3.8. Debated Issues on Origen and the Arguments of the Anti-Origenians

3.9. Gregory of Nyssas Revised Origenism

3.10. Final Confluence in Evagrius of Pontus

3.11. The First Origenist Controversy, I: Beginnings under Epiphanius

3.12. The First Origenist Controversy, II: Conflict in Egypt under Theophilus

3.13. The First Origenist Controversy, III: The Jerome-Rufinus Debate

3.14. Summary and Conclusions on Origen and Origenism, 200410 CE

4. That God May Be All in All: Origen and Origenism, 4101700 CE

4.1. Fifth-Century Coptic Anti-Origenism: Shenoute of Atripe

4.2. Non-Universalist Syriac Authors: Aphrahat, Ephrem, Isaac of Antioch, and Narsai

4.4. Hierarchical Neoplatonism: Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

4.5. Stephen bar Sudaili and the Book of the Holy Hierotheos

4.6. Bar Sudaili and Thirteenth-Century Mesopotamia: Bar Hebraeus, George Washnaya, and Simon the Persecuted

4.7. Sixth-Century Origenism in the Letters of Severus of Antioch and Barsanuphius

4.8. Maximus the Confessors Critique of Origenism

4.9. The Universalist Theology of Isaac the Syrian

4.10. The Speculative System of John Scotus Eriugena

4.11. Thomas Aquinas as a Critic of Origen

4.12. Soundings in European Origenism, 12001650 CE

4.13. Origenism in Seventeenth-Century England: Rust, Parker, and Conway

4.14. Origenisms Swan Song: The BayleLe Clerc Exchange

4.15. Toward Universalist Rationalism: Andrew Michael Ramsay and David Hartley

4.16. Summary and Conclusions on Origen and Origenism, 4101700 CE

5. In Yes and No All Things Consist: The Theosophic World of Jakob Bhme and the Bhmists of Germany, England, America , France, and Russia

5.1. Jakob Bhme: Life and Legend

5.2. Divergent Interpretations of Bhmes Thought

5.3. An Outline and Summary of Bhmes Theology

5.4. The Bhmist Shift to Universalism

5.5. Bhmist Receptions: Sectarian, Churchly, Esoteric, Literary, and Philosophical

5.6. Johann Georg Gichtel and the Early German Bhmists

5.7. Gerrard Winstanley, Jane Lead, and the Philadelphian Movement in England

5.8. Johann and Johanna Petersen and German and German-American Pietistic Universalism

5.9. British Bhmism: William Law, George MacDonald, Andrew Jukes, and Thomas Erskine

5.10. Universalism against a Backdrop of French Illuminism, Esotericism, and Occultism

5.11. Martines de Pasqually and the Emergence of French Martinism

5.12. Martinism under Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin

5.13. The Rise of Russian Bhmism prior to Solovyov