Reddit reviews The Evangelical Universalist

I was listening to an interview about universalism with Robin Parry (the evangelical universalist) on an emergent/post-evangelical podcast I subscribe to. The interviewer started to talk shit about PSA for turning everyone against unversalism (I hope the irony of post-evangelicals punishing PSA for the sins of evangelicalism isn't lost on anyone), and Parry pointed out that if you already subscribe to PSA, you have to accept either limited atonement or universalism. In fact, this was basically the Puritans' defense of limited atonement; given PSA, the only way to make sense of the conviction that some people will actually go to hell is to accept limited atonement.

People usually recommend The Evangelical Universalist. I haven't read it myself, but it appears to have a good mix of both Biblical support and philosophical arguments.

Hope Beyond Hell is all about the Biblical arguments, and you can get the pdf for free.

The Inescapable Love of God is another I should mention, since Thomas Talbot still engages in debates online.

There have been a ton of books released on universalism in the past two or three decades; it's hard to say which one to pick. I did read Destined for Salvation by Kalen Fristad and liked it, and it's rather short.

No problem! If you are interested in the Christian doctrine of Universalism I can recommend the books The Evangelical Universalist and Universal Salvation?: The Current Debate.

Yes, I've read that book. It was terrible (almost as bad as the Rob Bell book you mentioned). Personally I wouldn't recommend either of these books, but I would recommend The evangelical universalist by Robin Parry.

Also heresies (like gnosticism) were called out as heresies by early church councils. The form of Christian universalism which was believed by many of the important early church fathers such as: Gregory of Nyssa, Clement of Alexandria, Didymus the Blind, Theophilus of Antioch, St. Jerome etc. was never anathematised. A specific form of it taught by Origen was, but that had all sorts of other ideas attached to it too.