List of Christian Universalists

This is a list of believers in Christian Universalism—specifically, Trinitarian Universalism prior to the 1961 creation of the Unitarian Universalist Association. Early Christians—from the second through fourth centuries—have been catalogued by scholars Hosea Ballou (Ancient History of Universalism, 1828), John Wesley Hanson (Universalism: The Prevailing Doctrine of the Christian Church During Its First Five Hundred Years, 1899), George T. Knight (The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, 1911), and Pierre Batiffol (Catholic Encyclopedia, 1914), but modern scholarship questions the claim that all of these individuals were believers in universal reconciliation. Some of those listed here may have simply believed in apokatastasis in the Jewish or early Christian sense, without any intention that all who had ever lived would be saved.

Several modern Christian theologians have been deemed "hopeful Universalists" for a belief in the possibility of universal reconciliation, but who did not claim it was a dogmatic fact—e.g. Karl Barth and Cormac Murphy-O'Connor.

Table

Name	Lived	Nationality	Denomination	Notes
Richard Coppin	1500s or 1600s – 1660s	English	Anglican, later Presbyterian Ranter	Anglican clergyman
William Law	1686 – April 9, 1761	English	Anglican	Cleric
Jane Leade	1624–1704	English	Behemenist, later Philadelphian	Mystic, founder of the Philadelphians
Alexander Mack	July 27, 1679 – January 18, 1735	German	Reformed, later Brethren/German Baptist	Founder and first minister of the Brethren/German Baptists
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola	February 24, 1463 – November 17, 1494	Italian	Roman Catholic	Kabbalist and philosopher
John Pordage	1607–1681	English	Anglican, later Philadelphian	Priest and mystic
Andrew Michael Ramsay	January 9, 1686 – May 6, 1743	Scottish	Roman Catholic
Thomas Potter	1689–1777	American	Baptist, later Universalist Church of America	Universalist minister
Gerrard Winstanley	1609 – September 10, 1676	English	Digger and Quaker

Notes

• ^{^} For example, Frederick W. Norris in the article on apocatastasis in 2004's The Westminster Handbook to Origen writes that "As far as we can tell, therefore, Origen never decided to stress exclusive salvation or universal salvation, to the strict exclusion of either case."

See also

• Apocatastasis
• Christian Universalism
• Universal reconciliation
• Universalist Church of America
• List of Unitarians, Universalists, and Unitarian Universalists