Christian Universalism, which positions that all people, not some, are saved through Jesus Christ, is “alive and well” as a belief system in America, a modern Christianity professor has said, calling for it to be opposed.
Michael McClymond, Professor of Modern Christianity at Saint Louis University, told desiringGod.org in an interview posted on Monday that there is a difference between irreligious universalism and the Christian kind.
As he explains in his new book, The Devil’s Redemption: A New History and Interpretation of Christian Universalism, released in June, “full-bore” universalism means that all human beings will be saved at the end, without exception.
“Christian universalism may add something to that that says that all that salvation occurs in and through Christ. Christian universalism, therefore, would be different from an interreligious universalism. There’s plenty of this interreligious universalism in the culture now,” he added.
“It’s the idea that all roads lead to God, and that one need not come through Christ to God. A Christian universalism says, ‘No, it has to be through Christ. Somehow, through Christ all will be saved.'”
The scholar said that there are various strands of Christian universalism in the West, which go about…
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