Answering The Devil’s Redemption: A Defense of Universal Restoration

A Rebuttal of McClymonds Attack on Biblical Universalism.This book is a chapter-by-chapter response to Michael McClymond’s The Devil’s Redemption from a conservative universalist perspective. It aims to answer his historical and theological criticisms while also building a positive case for universal restoration.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1—Why This Book Exists
CHAPTER 2—What Is Conservative Biblical Universalism
CHAPTER 3—McClymond's Method, Guilt by Association, and the Genetic Fallacy
CHAPTER 4—The Gnostic Origins Claim
CHAPTER 5—The Kabbalistic and Esoteric Roots Argument
CHAPTER 6—The Universalism to Unitarianism Pipeline
CHAPTER 7—Bohme, Mysticism, Two Streams
CHAPTER 8—Universalism Before Origen
CHAPTER 9—Origen: Anti-Gnostic Theologian
CHAPTER 10—Gregory of Nyssa: McClymond's Misreadings
CHAPTER 11—The Weight of the Patristic Witness
CHAPTER 12—The Fifth Ecumenical Council
CHAPTER 13—Augustines Role in the Shift Away from Universalism
CHAPTER 14—McClymond on the All Texts
CHAPTER 15—Aionios and the Language of Eternity
CHAPTER 16—Gehenna, Narrow Way, Severity of Judgment
CHAPTER 17—The Sheep and the Goats
CHAPTER 18—Revelation: Lake of Fire, New Jerusalem
CHAPTER 19—McClymond on the Johannine Texts
CHAPTER 20—Pauline Vision of Universal Reconciliation
CHAPTER 21—McClymond on the Petrine Epistles
CHAPTER 22—McClymond on Hebrews and the Warning Passages
CHAPTER 23—Universalism Makes Christ Unnecessary
CHAPTER 24—Gods Love, Gods Freedom, and the Nature of Salvation
CHAPTER 25—Free Will, Sin as Bondage, and the Nature of Genuine Freedom
CHAPTER 26—McClymond on the Problem of Evil and Final Harmony
CHAPTER 27—Does Universalism Undermine Evangelism, Morality, and Urgency
CHAPTER 28—The Domino Effect
CHAPTER 29—McClymond vs Hart
CHAPTER 30—McClymond vs Talbott
CHAPTER 31—Body and Soul
CHAPTER 32—All Things New
Appendices
APPENDIX A—Scripture Index
APPENDIX B—Annotated Bibliography
APPENDIX C—Glossary