Actualitatea apocatastazei. Între iubirea lui Dumnezeu și libertatea omului
The Actuality of Apocatastasis. Between God’s love and human freedom

Summary/Abstract: This text is based on the doctoral thesis of Mrs. Raluca Mocean Pleșa. We have aimed to show that the most profound spiritual assumption of the antinomy of hell is the one to be found in the words of the cobbler of Alexandria: “May they all be saved. I alone deserve damnation”. This unlimitedly opens up the perspective of hope in the salvation of everybody, hope which lies at the foundation of that perfect work of the saints: prayer for universal salvation. At the same time, it has us face the direst possibility of our own perdition. The way out of the infernal experience was revealed by God to St. Silouan: “Keep your mind in hell and despair not.” In such a state, the soul which loses any reliance on itself plunges into God’s love inferno. Only this antinomy of inferno, or universal restoration (which we have tried to underline throughout this paper), makes possible complete love and covers all of its extremes. Only it unites in unbreakable fashion the mystery of man and the mystery of God, the mystery of human freedom and the mystery of divine love, affirmed in one another and never defeated.

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