Includes bibliographical references and index.

Volume 1. Introduction -- Final Salvation: Church Teachings and Newer Views -- Ancient Afterlives: The Gnostic, Kabbalist, and Esoteric Roots of Christian Universalism -- "The End Is Like the Beginning": Origen and Origenism, 200-410 CE -- "That God May Be All in All": Origen and Origenism, 410-1700 CE -- "In Yes and No All Things Consist": The Theosophic World of Jakob Böhme and the Böhmists of Germany, England, America, France, and Russia -- A House Divided: The Rise and Fall of the Anglo-American Universalists.

Volume 2. German Thinkers: Kant and Müller, Schleiermacher and Hegel, Schelling and Tillich -- Russian Thinkers: Solovyov, Berdyaev, Florovsky, and Bulgakov -- Debating Universal Election: Karl Barth, Barth's Interpreters, Jürgen Moltmann, and the Post-1970s Kenotic-Relational Theologies -- Embracing Universal Hope: Karl Rahner, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and the Inclusivist, Plurocentrist, and Universalist Turns in Roman Catholicism -- New Theologies in the New Millennium: The Variety of Contemporary Universalisms -- The Eclipse of Grace: An Appraisal of Christian Universalism -- Appendix A: Gnosis and Western Esotericism: Definitions and Lineages -- Appendix B: Zoroastrian Eschatology -- Appendix C: Anti-Origenist Declarations in the Early Church: From Alexandria, Jerusalem, Rome, and Constantinople -- Appendix D: Ramelli's The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis (2013) -- Appendix E: The Sefiroth: A Kabbalistic Diagram -- Appendix F: Universal Salvation in Islamic Teaching -- Appendix G: Types of Christian Universalism -- Appendix H: The Cosmic Saga: An Esoteric View -- Appendix I: Ultra-Dispensational Universalism -- Appendix J: Words and Concepts for Time and Eternity -- Appendix K: Mormon Teachings on God, Cosmos, and Salvation -- Appendix L: Barth and Bultmann on Romans 5.

Will all people eventually be saved? Will all evil finally turn to good, or does some evil remain fully and stubbornly opposed to God and God's goodness? Will even the devil be redeemed? The question of the devil's final salvation has been continuously debated since the time of Origen. This comprehensive book surveys the history of Christian universalism from the second to the twenty-first century and offers an interpretation of how and why universalist belief arose. Michael McClymond explores what the church has taught about universal salvation and hell and offers a critique of universalism from a biblical, philosophical, and theological standpoint. He shows that the effort to extend grace to everyone undermines the principle of grace for anyone. --