{"id":240,"date":"2011-10-20T22:02:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T22:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godslovewins.com\/blog\/?page_id=240"},"modified":"2013-11-04T20:34:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T04:34:36","slug":"thomas-talbott","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/godslovewins.com\/blog\/thomas-talbott\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Talbott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thomas Talbott, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Willamette University<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Professor Talbott engaged in a series of articles in the\u00a0<em>Reformed Journal<\/em>\u00a0debating the issue of the nature of hell with neo-Calvinist John Piper.\u00a0 He wrote\u00a0<em>The Inescapable Love of God<\/em>\u00a0in 1999, and was the principle contributor to\u00a0<em>Universal Salvation: The Current Debate\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0(2004). \u00a0He is also co-founder of the Evangelical Universalist Forum with Gregory MacDonald (Robin Parry).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is a summary of Talbott&#8217;s journey into Evangelical Universalism:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;. . . the Western theological tradition seemed to leave me with a choice between an unjust and unloving God, on the one hand, and a defeated God, on the other. But of course this hardly exhausts the logical possibilities; there remains the additional possibility that it is God\u2019s very nature to love, as I John 4:8 and 16 appears to declare, and that he is also wise and resourceful enough to accomplish all\u00a0of his loving purposes in the end. Why, after all, should an assumption concerning everlasting punishment be the only unquestioned assumption in a context where some are limiting the extent of God\u2019s love and others are limiting the scope of his ultimate victory? Why not at least examine the pros and cons of universal reconciliation alongside those of limited election and those of a limited victory over sin and death?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>. . . I now view universal reconciliation as something more than a vague hope of some kind. To the contrary, I now view it as essential to a proper understanding of salvation, essential to a Pauline understanding of grace, and essential to the inclusive nature of election. For even as many Augustinians are utterly convinced that God\u2019s salvific will cannot be defeated forever and many Arminians are utterly convinced that God at least wills the salvation of all human sinners, so I am equally convinced that both claims are true.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From the article &#8220;Can an Evangelical Be a Universalist?&#8221; by George W. Sarris:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.christianpost.com\/engaging-the-culture\/2011\/06\/can-an-evangelical-be-a-universalist-02\/\">http:\/\/blogs.christianpost.com\/engaging-the-culture\/2011\/06\/can-an-evangelical-be-a-universalist-02\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Talbott, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Willamette University Professor Talbott engaged in a series of articles in the\u00a0Reformed Journal\u00a0debating the issue of the nature of hell with neo-Calvinist John&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/godslovewins.com\/blog\/thomas-talbott\/\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thomas Talbott<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-240","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","excerpt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godslovewins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godslovewins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godslovewins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godslovewins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godslovewins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/godslovewins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/godslovewins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/240\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godslovewins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}