Famous quotes on Universalism: Help needed

[Gary Amirault]

I started a list of quotes on the Victorious Gospel (My name for Universalism)

http://www.tentmaker.org/articles/victorious_gospel_quotes_famous_people.html

I need help. We have quotes scattered all over the place and there are many quotes on the internet. I want to collect them AND give the reference for which book/writing the quotes came from. A great source for older quotes in J.W. Hanson's "A Great Cloud of witnesses." Anyway, if there are any folks who would like to spend some considerable time in this project, please email me. But if you just have a few favorites you'd like to pass on, email me with those as well. Remember, as much information regarding where the quote came from would be helpful. email me at gary at tentmaker.org

[jbs]

If you have a search on google books there are many but here are a few I got.
"Pauls view is that Salvation is universal – "for all". This position holds that because the cross is a "full, perfect and sufficient sacrifice for the sins of the world" salvation must be universal.........The point of the book of revelations is simply that Gods intention that all Gods creatures be reconciled with God and each other cannot be defeated."
Dr. Clark Williamson is Indiana Professor of Christian Thought at Christian Theological Seminary
from
Pondering the Passion : Whats at stake for Christians and Jews pg 127

"This means, I think Paul cannot figure out how God will do it – given the requirement of faith in Christ – but that he will manage to save everyone."

"As a good monotheist, Paul believed in Gods power and victory over every other force. God will not lose anything that is his"

Professor EP Sanders in : Early Christian Thought in Its Jewish Context
By John M. G. Barclay (pg.127)


"How can christs work be less effective, less cosmic, than Adam's transgression? The whole point of the the comparison between Adam and Christ is that the effects of Christ's saving work (all shall be made alive) match the cosmic effects of Adam's primal transgression (all die). How could it be otherwise if God is to be "all in all"?

There can be no doubt here that Pauls words signify universal salvation, even if here too there have been repeated attempts to suggest that is not what Paul really means."

The continuum History of APOCALYPTICISM   
Professor M.C. De Booer pg.166

[jbs]

"I do not question that the New Testament contains references to "Gehenna"—usually translated as "hell"—and that in early Christian usage it often refers to a place or destiny of ultimate punishment. And I do not challenge the fact that many of the references to hell describe the means of punishment as burning fire.

However, I am convinced that the Gospel of Jesus Christ—with its grand themes of incarnation, cross, resurrection, and grace—demands that hell is ultimately empty. "


"Why was it ever important to Christians that, for their own salvation to be meaningful, some others—especially those others called evil-doers—must be truly and ultimately damned? Such thinking undervalues and underestimates the radical power of God's grace.

There is a Gospel that arises dramatically from the New Testament's testimony to God's incarnate love in Jesus Christ. It is good news that unleashes hope for the world and builds up the church's faith."

Dr. Joe R Jones

Professor Emeritus of Theology and Ethics at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis

A Grammar of Christian Faith: Systematic Explorations in Christian Life and Doctrine. 2 vols. (Lanham. Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002).