Nadzieja zbawienia dla wszystkich? Studium wybranych pisarzy wczesnochrześcijańskich

A hope of salvation for everybody? A study in selected early Christian writers

There has lately been much controversy among theological circles concerning the notion of hope of general salvation (Hans Urs von Balthasar, W. Hryniewicz). The questions connected with that issue date back to the beginning of the Church’s theology and especially stem from the notion of apokatastasis. This article aims at describing and discussing the early Christian inspirations of the issue. Also, it concentrates on Origen’s thought and emphasised by him concept of general apokatastasis on the basis of the Bible’s instructing as well as Church Fathers’ and writers’ views. The concept of general apokatastasis is understood as the final part of God’s pedagogy intending to restore all the rational creatures and their return to the initial unity with God. The research carried out prove that Origen treated the quoted above view more as a full of hope hypothesis being a finial of his eschatological-soteriological ‘system’ rather than as a doctrine.