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"Augustine and the Doctrine of Universal Restoration"

Nov 20, 2012
Swift Hall, Room 106
1025 E 58th St,
Chicago, IL 60637
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Cosponsored by the History of Christianity Club

The great theologian Augustine of Hippo (354-430) is known to have condemned the doctrine of universal restoration and salvation (apokatastasis) devised by Origen of Alexandria (255ca.) as heretical. But in his earlier defense of Christian Orthodoxy against Manicheism, Augustine adhered to this doctrine. This lecture will show how Augustine's later polemic against the Pelagians and his ignorance of Greek played a significant role in his eventual rejection of Origen's doctrine.