title: Patristic Universalism: An Alternative to the Traditional View of Divine Judgment
author:  David Burnfield 
description: <span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Patristic Universalism is the belief that God</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span>desires</span><span>all men to be saved and</span><span>achieves</span><span><span><span><span><span><span>this desire through His Son Jesus Christ. While some forms of universalism have sprung up that teach there is no hell and that all truth is relative, this is not the universalism I'm defending. The form of universalism advocated in this book is that which was taught by some of the earliest and greatest church Fathers such as Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and Gregory of Nyssa. It adheres to all the traditional teachings with only a few areas of deviationtion such as the doctrine of post mortem evangelism and the doctrine of hell.</span></span></span></span></span></span>
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  Judge on the Universal Brotherhood v. 15.11, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 30 September 2017 
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  Universal Brotherhood, 
  a Fact in Nature. 
  
  LIVING THE LIFE SERIES 
  UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD 
  Judge on the Universal Brotherhood v. 15.11, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 30 September 2017 
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  First published in: The Theosophical Congress, pp. 70-74. Republished in: Dara Eklund (Comp.). Ech-
  oes of the Orient: The Writings of William Quan Judge. 2nd ed. Pasadena: Theosophical University 
  Press: Vol. II, 2009; UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD, A FACT IN NATURE, pp. 143-48. 
   HAVE BEEN REQUESTED TO SPEAK on the subject of Universal Brotherhood 
  as a fact in nature; not as a theory, not as a Utopian dream which can never 
  be realized; not as a fact in society, not as a fact in government, but as a fact 
  in nature. That is, that Universal Brotherhood is an actual thing, whether it is recog-
  nized or whether it is not. Christian priests have claimed for some years, without 
  right, th