Shall All Be Saved? Current Orthodox Clarifications to Pope Francis’ Statements
Shall All Be Saved? Current Orthodox Clarifications to Pope Francis’ Statements

Summary/Abstract: This piece of research is based on Pope Francis’ statement: “This is not dogma, just my thought: I like to think of Hell as being empty. I hope it is”. Since we felt We, the orthodox community, believe that these comments could not have accurately captured and encompassed the entire concept underlying the statement of the sovereign pontiff. This elaborated perspective outlines a current Orthodox response on the idea of universal salvation and its spiritual assumption in the life of the orthodox Christian. Here we will focus on analyzing three distinct concepts: in the first concept, the historical course of the idea of apocatastasis or, Christian universalism as it is used in today’s theological discourse will be observed, second, a relevant modern day example of the impact produced by the pastoralism of fear implemented by the Catholic Church and the natural consequences will be outlined, and third, to demonstrate whether there is in fact a spiritual assumption of apocatastasis in the expressions proposed by Pope Francis.

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