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This book aims to uncover and explore the ideas of notable people in the story of Christian universalism from the time of the Reformation until the end of the nineteenth century. It is a story that is largely unknown in both the church and the academy, and the characters that populate it have for the most part passed into obscurity. With carefully located bore holes drilled to release the long-hidden theologies of key people and texts, the volume seeks to display and historically situate the roots, shapes, and diversity of Christian universalism. Here we discover a diverse and motley crew of mystics and scholars, social prophets and end-time sectarians, evangelicals and liberals, orthodox and heretics, Calvinists and Arminians, Puritans, Pietists, and a host of others. The story crisscrosses Continental Europe, Britain, and America, and its reverberations remain with us to this day.""Parry (and Ramelli) are to be commended--or, really, praised--for having brought this project to completion with such scrupulous care and comprehensiveness. Taken in its totality, it is a work that reminds us how large and venerable the Christian universalist tradition is, how intellectually and spiritually rich, and how deeply biblically informed. This is an indispensable text.""--David Bentley Hart, Affiliate of the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study""Robin Parry''s work on universalism is well known and widely admired. In this volume, he tracks the doctrine in the work of a number of key thinkers from the Reformation to the nineteenth century. For those concerned to think carefully and thoroughly about this vital issue, his series of theological explorations will provide guidance on how the doctrine has developed and changed in modern thought, as well as theological grist for the conceptual mill. Along the way he corrects various misrepresentations that have grown up in the recent debates about universalism, and provides fascinating insight into some important but largely forgotten thinkers. Written in Parry''s engaging style, this is a work that scholars and students of Christian eschatology will want to consult.""--Oliver Crisp, Professor of Analytic Theology, University of St. Andrews""This theological history of universalism from the early modern to the modern period is scholarly, nuanced, careful, and encyclopedic in scope. Uncovering the quiet stream of universalism throughout the period, A Larger Hope? reminds the theological community of the varieties and forms of universalism that have always been present in theological reasoning."" --Tom Greggs, Marischal (1616) Chair and Head of Divinity, University of AberdeenRobin A. Parry is a curate at the Church of St. Martin with St. Peter in Worcester, UK, and an editor for Wipf & Stock Publishers. Ilaria Ramelli is Professor of Theology and K.Britt Chair Graduate School of Theology, SHMS, Angelicum University), and Senior Fellow Oxford; Durham; Catholic University; Erfurt University Max Weber Center.

This book aims to uncover and explore the ideas of notable people in the story of Christian universalism from the time of the Reformation until the end of the nineteenth century. It is a story that is largely unknown in both the church and the academy, and the characters that populate it have for the most part passed into obscurity. With carefully located bore holes drilled to release the long-hidden theologies of key people and texts, the volume seeks to display and historically situate the roots, shapes, and diversity of Christian universalism. Here we discover a diverse and motley crew of mystics and scholars, social prophets and end-time sectarians, evangelicals and liberals, orthodox and heretics, Calvinists and Arminians, Puritans, Pietists, and a host of others. The story crisscrosses Continental Europe, Britain, and America, and its reverberations remain with us to this day.

-Can an orthodox Christian, committed to the historic faith of the church and the authority of the Bible, be a universalist? -Is it possible to believe that salvation is found only by grace, through faith in Christ, and yet to maintain that in the end all people will be saved?-Can one believe passionately in mission if one does not think that anyone will be lost forever?-Could universalism be consistent with the teachings of the Bible? Gregory MacDonald argues that the answer is yes to all of these questions. Weaving together philosophical, theological, and biblical considerations, MacDonald seeks to show that being a committed universalist is consistent with the central teachings of the biblical texts and of historic Christian theology.This second edition contains a new preface providing the backstory of the book, two extensive new appendices, a study guide, and a Scripture index.""This passionate and lucid advocacy of an evangelical universalism not only engages with key passages in the context of the overall biblical narrative but also treats clearly the profound theological and philosophical issues to which that narrative gives rise. Readers will find this book an excellent, accessible, and indispensable aid in their own attempts to grapple with what its author describes as ''a hell of a problem.''""--Andrew T. Lincoln Portland Professor in New Testament StudiesUniversity of Gloucestershire""I was struck by the persuasiveness of many of Gregory MacDonald''s arguments, not least since they rest in an unusually adept interweaving of biblical exegesis with relevant philosophical and theological considerations.""--Joel B. GreenProfessor of New Testament Interpretation Fuller Theological Seminary""With this wonderful book, Gregory MacDonald joins the growing body of evangelical Christians who now accept a doctrine of universal reconciliation. But I know of no one who has set forth an equally clear, thorough, and compelling case for a universalist reading of the Bible as a whole.""--Thomas TalbottEmeritus Professor of PhilosophyWillamette University""This volume makes a significant contribution to a long-standing theological conundrum that has become a pressing concern in our modern world. For some, it is a dangerous book. But the best books are often the dangerous ones. This is both a dangerous and an important work. For these reasons, it should be read and pondered.""--Oliver D. Crisp Professor of Systematic TheologyFuller Theological SeminaryGregory MacDonald is Robin A. Parry, an editor at Wipf and Stock publishers.

If worship is God centered,and God is the Trinity, then worship should be Trinity centered.Worshipping Trinity explores the meaning and implications of that simple claim. Written for church leaders, worship leaders, and songwriters, as well as for those interested in theology, this volume explains why the Trinity matters so much and explores practical ways our worship can be made more Trinitarian. This second edition is fully updated and expanded.""The book has become a classic--and rightly so. There is nothing else like it. It brings first-rate theology and astute practical wisdom to the very heart of the church''s life. And the second edition is even better than the first!""--Jeremy Begbie, Duke Divinity School""Robin Parry is a fine theologian who writes accessibly and engagingly. I hope this second edition will be very widely read. It has the capacity to enable the renewal of the life and worship of the church.""--John Inge, Bishop of Worcester, UKPraise for the First Edition:""This is an extremely helpful book!""--Matt Redman, songwriter and worship leader""Robin Parry has given us a terrific resource with which we can see a clearer picture of the God we worship.""--Keith Getty, hymn writer""Robin Parry calls us higher up and further in through this well-written, clear, and important book.""--Brian McLaren, pastor and author""Not merely theologically profound, but lucid, accessible, and profoundly relevant.""--Alan J. Torrance, University of St. Andrews, UK""This is a most important book.""--Graham Cray, Bishop of Maidstone, UK""I found my own spirit was stirred by simply reading the excellent central chapters. . . . This is a book well worth reading and one I wholeheartedly recommend.""--Terry Virgo, New Frontiers, UK""Bloody good!""--Andrew G. Walker, King''s College, UK""I cannot recommend this work highly enough. Pastors, worship leaders, and mature Christians must read this and practice the sort of Trinitarian worship Parry recommends.""--Myk Habets, Carey Baptist College, New ZealandRobin Parry is an editor for Wipf and Stock Publishers. He is also author of Old Testament Story and Christian Ethics and the coeditor of Great Is Thy Faithfulness? Reading Lamentations as Sacred Scripture.