{"id":5046,"date":"2009-12-16T06:03:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T06:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2009\/12\/can-evangelicals-be-universali.html"},"modified":"2009-12-16T06:03:11","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T06:03:11","slug":"can-evangelicals-be-universali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2009\/12\/can-evangelicals-be-universali.html","title":{"rendered":"Can Evangelicals be Universalists?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GregMacd.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/files\/import\/imgs\/GregMacd.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"218\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/span>Next week we will begin a short series on the question of whether or not evangelicals can be universalists, and to help us with that question we will be reading through and blogging about Gregory Macdonald&#8217;s book <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0281059888?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jescre-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0281059888\">The Evangelical Universalist<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jescre-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0281059888\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em>. Acquire the book if you can &#8212; all kinds of used and new formats. The book was originally published in 2006 by Wipf and Stock and is now published in England under SPCK.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Are you encountering &#8220;evangelical universalists&#8221;? How do they explain their views? How big of an issue do you think this is?<\/b><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;ve said a number of times that I think this issue is one of the most pressing theological topics for emerging adults.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The oddity of this book: <a href=\"http:\/\/evangelicaluniversalist.blogspot.com\/\">the author&#8217;s name is a pseudonym<\/a>! But, <a href=\"http:\/\/theologicalscribbles.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/i-am-evangelical-universalist.html\">he&#8217;s now made public<\/a> and he&#8217;s an editor at Paternoster Press, an evangelical publishing house, and he believes in universal restoration. His name is Robin Parry.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next week we will begin a short series on the question of whether or not evangelicals can be universalists, and to help us with that question we will be reading through and blogging about Gregory Macdonald&#8217;s book The Evangelical Universalist . 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