Universalism is a religion and theology that generally holds all persons and creatures are related to God or the divine and will be reconciled to God. A church that calls itself Universalist may emphasize the universal principles of most religions and accept other religions in an inclusive manner, believing in a universal reconciliation between humanity and the divine. Other religions may have Universalist theology as one of their tenets and principles, including Christianity, Hinduism, and some of the New Age religions. Universalist beliefs exist within many faiths, and many Universalists practice in a variety of traditions, drawing upon the same universal principles. Universalism refers to any concept or doctrine that applies to all persons and/or all things for all times and in all situations, and may mean different things depending on the field: see Universalism For Universal truth, see Universality (philosophy) For Universal ethic, see Universal ethic, Moral universalism or Moral... Theology finds its scholars pursuing the understanding of and providing reasoned discourse of religion, spirituality and God or the gods. ... Look up tenet in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... New Age describes a broad movement characterized by alternative approaches to traditional Western culture. ...

The most common principle drawn upon is love. (Sai Baba/Baba Speech): "The spirit present in all of the beings is varily seen as that of mind. They are all full of the essential love. Without love, it is all just a pun, without love you can not be happy !" This article is about the original, turn of the century Shirdi Sai Baba from Bombay state (now Maharashtra). ...

Christianity

Main article: Universal reconciliation

In Christianity, Universalism refers to the belief that all humans will be saved through Jesus Christ and eventually come to a harmony in God's kingdom. A related doctrine, apokatastasis, is the belief that all mortal beings will be reconciled to God, including Satan and his fallen angels. Universalism was a fairly commonly held view among theologians in early Christianity: In the first five or six centuries of Christianity there were six known theological schools, of which four (Alexandria, Antioch, Cesarea, and Edessa or Nisibis) were Universalist, one (Ephesus) accepted conditional immortality, and one (Carthage or Rome) taught the endless punishment of the lost.^[1]. The two major theologians opposing it were Tertullian and Augustine.^{[citation needed]} In later centuries, Universalism has become very much a minority position in the major branches of Christianity, though it has a long history of prominent adherents. Origen, a 3rd century proponent of universal reconciliation In Christian theology, universal reconciliation or universal salvation, is the doctrine or belief that all will eventually find salvation and reconciliation with God. ... Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations Ecumenism · Relation to other religions Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Christianity Portal This box:      Christianity is a monotheistic[1] religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as presented in the New Testament. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... External Links Article on Theandros - Eschatology and final restoration (apokatastasis) in Origen, Gregory of Nyssa and Maximos the Confessor Stoic/Astrological conception of apokatastasis ... Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, anglicised as Tertullian, (ca. ... Augustinus redirects here. ...

See also

• Universal reconciliation
• Apokatastasis
• Primitive Baptist Universalist
• Swedenborgianism, including The New Church
• Trinitarian Universalism
• Universalist Church of America
• Quaker Universalist Group

Origen, a 3rd century proponent of universal reconciliation In Christian theology, universal reconciliation or universal salvation, is the doctrine or belief that all will eventually find salvation and reconciliation with God. ... External Links Article on Theandros - Eschatology and final restoration (apokatastasis) in Origen, Gregory of Nyssa and Maximos the Confessor Stoic/Astrological conception of apokatastasis ... The Primitive Baptist Universalists (or PBUs) are a Calvinist Christian sect based primarily in the central Appalachian region of the United States. ... Swedenborgianism is the ecclesiastical organization of beliefs developed from the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688 – 1772). ... The New Church is a religious movement which began in the late eighteenth century. ... Rublevs Trinity Trinitarian Universalism is a formulation of Universalism, the belief that every person will be saved, that is centered and based on the Christian Trinitarianism of Athanasius, Karl Barth and T. F. Torrance. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... The Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers, or Friends, is a religious community founded in England in the 17th century. ...

Hinduism

Hindu Universalism denotes the ideology that all religions are true and therefore worthy of toleration and respect.^{[citation needed]} Veneration for all other religions was articulated by Gandhi: This article discusses the adherents of Hinduism. ... Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (October 2, 1869 – January 30, 1948) (Devanagari: मोहनदास करमचन्द गांधी, Gujarati મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી), called Mahatma Gandhi, was the charismatic leader who brought the cause of Indias independence from British colonial rule to world attention. ...

"After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that [1] all religions are true; [2] all religions have some error in them; [3] all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives. My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible." (M. K. Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Life and Thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi as told in his own words, Paris, UNESCO 1958, p 60.)

In Ananda Marga a branch of Hinduism, Universalism refers to the idea that energy and matter are evolved from cosmic consciousness. Thus, all created beings are of one universal family. This is an expansion of humanism to include everything as family, based on the fundamental truth that the universe is a thought projection from the Supreme. Ananda Marga, officially known as Ananda Marga Pracharaka Samgha (AMPS) meaning the organization for the propagation of the path of bliss is a spiritual movement, founded in Jamalpur, Bihar, India in 1955 by Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (1921-1990), known by his spiritual name of Shrii Shrii Anandamurti. ... Collective unconscious is a term of analytical psychology, and was originally coined by Carl Jung. ... Humanism is a broad category of ethical philosophies that affirm the dignity and worth of all people, based on the ability to determine right and wrong by appeal to universal human qualities — particularly rationality. ...

Judaism

Judaism teaches that God chose the Jewish people to be in a unique covenant with God, and one of their beliefs is that Jewish people were charged by the Torah with a specific mission — to be a light unto the nations, and to exemplify the covenant with God as described in the Torah to other nations. Not explicitly a Universal theology, this view, however, did not preclude others nations from a belief that God also has a relationship with other peoples — rather, Judaism held that God had entered into a covenant with all mankind as Noachides, and that Jews and non-Jews alike have a relationship with God. This article is about the term God in the context of monotheism and henotheism. ... In Judaism, chosenness is the belief that the Jews are a chosen people: chosen to be in a covenant with God. ... Template:Jews and Jewdaism Template:The Holy Book Named TorRah The Torah () is the most valuable Holy Doctrine within Judaism,(and for muslims) revered as the first relenting Word of Ulllah, traditionally thought to have been revealed to Blessed Moosah, An Apostle of Ulllah. ... This article is about the term God in the context of monotheism and henotheism. ... The Noahide laws, also called the Brit Noah (Covenant of Noah) are the mitzvot (commandments) and halakhot (laws) that Judaism teaches that all non-Jews are morally bound to follow. ...

See also: Jewish views of religious pluralism

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Islam

Muslims believe that God sent the Holy Qur'an to bring peace and harmony to humanity through Islam (submission to God). ^{[2] [3]} Muhammad's worldwide mission was to establish universal peace under the Khilafat.^[4] The Khilafat was intended to ensure security of the lives and property of non-Muslims under the dhimmi system, as well as according them certain rights of worship. A Muslim is a believer in or follower of Islam. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Holiness means the state of being holy, that is, set apart for the worship or service of a god or gods. ... The Qur’ān [1] (Arabic: , literally the recitation; also sometimes transliterated as Quran, Koran, or Al-Quran) is the central religious text of Islam. ... For people named Islam, see Islam (name). ... Muhammad in a new genre of Islamic calligraphy started in the 17th century by Hafiz Osman. ... The Khilafat Movement (1919-1924) was a movement amongst the Muslims of British India (the largest single Muslim community in one geo-political entity at the time) to ensure that the British, victors of World War I, kept a promise made at the Versailles. ... This article is about dhimmi in the context of Islamic law. ...

Although that system was initially for what Islam defines as the "people of the book" (i.e. Jews and Christians), some Muslims extend this to include Mandeans, Zoroastrians, and Hindus. Other Muslims disagree, and hold that adherents of these faiths cannot be dhimmi. This article is about the theological concept in Islam. ... This article is about the religous people known as Christians. ... Mandaeanism is a pre-Christian religion which has been classified by scholars as Gnostic. ... Zoroastrianism is the religion and philosophy based on the teachings ascribed to the prophet Zoroaster (Zarathustra, Zartosht). ... Hinduism is a religious tradition[1] that originated in the Indian subcontinent. ...

The Muslim ideal of universal brotherhood is the Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca) prescribed by Islam. Each year close to three million people from every corner of the globe assemble in Mecca to perform Hajj and worship God. No individual can be identified as a king or pauper because every man is dressed in ihram clothing. Look up brotherhood in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A supplicating pilgrim at Masjid Al Haram, the mosque which was built around the Kaaba (the cubical building at center). ... This article is about the city in Saudi Arabia. ... This is a sub-article of Ehram . ...

Forms of God

Jesus Christ is said to be the son of God the Father and Mary, who is not considered to be God the Mother but the Mother of God. In Christianity there is no being thought to be female and divine. Allah is thought to be without form, but some think Allah to be male like jewish and christian God the Father. Hinduism knows divine motherly beings as well as Great Mother. Girindrasekhar Bose, the founder of Indian Psychoanalytic Society, in his correspondence with Sigmund Freud "pointed to the importance of the maternal deities in his culture. Other Indian psychoanalysts even criticized classical Freudian psychoanalysis for being a product of a 'Father religion or Son religion'." ^[5] The Great Mother manifests itself in myth as a host of archaic images. ... Sigmund Freud (IPA: ), born Sigismund Schlomo Freud (May 6, 1856 – September 23, 1939), was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology. ...

References

• Catholic Encyclopedia article on Universalists as a Protestant denomination
• Catholic Encyclopedia article on Apocatastasis

Sayyid Qutb Sayyid Qutb (IPA pronunciation: []) (also Syed, Seyyid, Sayid, or Sayed; last name also Koteb or Kutb) (Arabic: ; born October 9, 1906[1] – executed August 29, 1966) was an Egyptian author, Islamist, and the leading intellectual of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s and 60s. ... Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. ...

Further reading

• Ankerl, Guy [2000]. Global communication without universal civilization, INU societal research Vol.1: Coexisting contemporary civilizations : Arabo-Muslim, Bharati, Chinese, and Western. Geneva: INU Press. ISBN 2-88155-004-5. 

See also

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• Bahá'í Faith
• Comparative religion
• Ecumenism
• Ethnology
• George Macdonald
• Lan astaslem
• Liberal Catholic Church
• Omnism
• Oomoto
• Perennial philosophy
• Primitive Baptist Universalist
• Religious pluralism
• The problem of Hell
• The Universalist Herald
• Universal reconciliation
• Universal Life Church
• Universalist Church of America
• Unitarian Universalism

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External links

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• Quaker Universalist Group
• The Christian Universalist Association
• Unitarian Universalist Association
• Universal Salvation: There Are Hundreds of Verses in the Bible that Supports the True Doctrine of Apocastatasis --A scripture-based article from a binitarian Church of God view.
• Christian Fellowship Ministries -- Supporting the biblical understanding of Universal Reconciliation.
• Biblical Universalism:Universal Salvation as Taught in the Greek Text of the New Testament -- Offers Biblical and Patristic Evidence that Hell is not Endless, with articles and sermons from historic universalists like Gregory of Nyssa, Charles Chauncy, and Elhanan Winchester.
• Universalism and the Bible -- Prof. Keith DeRose (of Yale University) defends universalism on biblical grounds.
• Universal Salvation in the Eschatology of Sergius Bulgakov
• Student of the Word Craig Nolin's Christian Universalism ministry
• Underground Universalism
• About God's Inclusive Love -- Bishop Carlton Pearson's web site.
• True Grace Ministries -- Rev. Ken Allen's web site.
• Tentmaker Gary Amirault's Christian Universalism ministry
• The Biblical Universalist
• Bible-Truths L. Ray Smith, The Lake of Fire Series
• Universalist Sufism Sufi Musfaad
• The New Church.
• Universal Life Church -- the largest online church, practicing tenets of Universalism.

Opposing Universalism

• Against Universalism -- Several Christian theological articles opposing universalism, especially preterist universalism.