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"What happens to those who did not hear the gospel before death, or who heard an incorrect version? What about those who were too young or who were otherwise unable to respond? Examining the biblical evidence and assessing the theological implications, James Beilby offers a careful consideration of the possibility for salvation after death"--

Salvation after death --- Salvation --- Christianity

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Salvation after death --- Salvation outside the church --- History of doctrines --- History of doctrines

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Menachem Kellner is an American-born scholar of Jewish philosophy, an educator, and a public intellectual who lives in Israel. For over three decades he taught at the University of Haifa, where he held the Sir Isaac and Lady Edith Wolfson Chair of Jewish Religious Thought as well as several high-level administrative positions. Currently he teaches Jewish philosophy at Shalem College, Israel’s first liberal arts college, which seeks to integrate Western and Jewish texts. Trained in ethics and political philosophy, Kellner specializes in medieval Jewish philosophy, arguing that Maimonides’ rationalist universalism should serve as the ideal for contemporary Jewish life. Creatively fusing Zionism, modern Orthodoxy, and democracy, his vision of Judaism is open to and engaged with the modern world.

Universalism. --- Jewish philosophy --- Judaism and philosophy. --- Philosophy and Judaism --- Philosophy --- Salus extra ecclesiam --- Universal salvation --- Salvation --- Salvation after death --- Christianity --- Kellner, Menachem Marc, --- Kellner, Menachem Marc --- קלנר, מנחם --- קלנר, מנחם,

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Death --- Salvation after death --- Second Advent --- Christian ethics --- Mort --- Salut posthume --- Second avènement --- Morale chrétienne --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme --- Jesus Christ --- Ressurection --- #GGSB: Dogmatiek --- Academic collection --- #GGSB: Dood & Levenseinde --- #GGSB: Godsleer --- Second avènement --- Morale chrétienne --- Ressurection. --- Resurrection. --- Dogmatiek --- Dood & Levenseinde --- Godsleer

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This study offers an in-depth examination of Porphyrian soteriology, or the concept of the salvation of the soul, in the thought of Porphyry of Tyre, whose significance for late antique thought is immense. Porphyry's concept of salvation is important for an understanding of those cataclysmic forces, not always theological, that helped convert the Roman Empire from paganism to Christianity. Porphyry, a disciple of Plotinus, was the last and greatest anti-Christian writer to vehemently attack the Church before the Constantinian revolution. His contribution to the pagan-Christian debate on universalism can thus shed light on the failure of paganism and the triumph of Christianity in late antiquity. In a broader historical and cultural context this study will address some of the issues central to the debate on universalism, in which Porphyry was passionately involved and which was becoming increasingly significant during the unprecedented series of economic, cultural, political, and military crises of the third century. As the author will argue, Porphyry may have failed to find one way of salvation for all humanity, he nonetheless arrived a hierarchical soteriology, something natural for a Neoplatonist, which resulted in an integrative religious and philosophical system. His system is examined in the context of other developing ideologies of universalism, during a period of unprecedented imperial crises, which were used by the emperors as an agent of political and religious unification. Christianity finally triumphed over its competitors owing to its being perceived to be the only universal salvation cult that was capable of bringing about this unification. In short, it won due to its unique universalist soteriology. By examining a rival to Christianity's concept of universal salvation, this book will be valuable to students and scholars of ancient philosophy, patristics, church history, and late antiquity.Review: "Simmons demonstrates command of sources in Greek, Latin and Syriac...for those interested in Porphyry's response to Christianity, this will likely be the volume of choice for some considerable time."

Salvation --- Universalism. --- Salut --- Universalisme --- Comparative studies. --- Christianity --- History of doctrines --- Etudes comparatives --- Christianisme --- Histoire des doctrines --- Porphyry, --- Rome --- Religion. --- Religion --- Porphyre, --- Salus extra ecclesiam --- Universal salvation --- Salvation after death --- Porphyrios, --- Porphyrius --- Porphyrius, --- Porfirio, --- Malchus, --- Porfiryus, --- פורפוריוס --- פורפיריוס, --- Πορφύριος, --- Histoire des doctrines. --- Porfirio --- Porphyrius Neoplatonicus --- Porphyrius Tyrius, Philosophus --- Porphyry --- Porphyre --- Universalism