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The Dictionary of Paul and His Letters is a one-of-a-kind reference work. Following the format of its highly successful companion volume, the Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, this Dictionary is designed to bring students, teachers, ministers and laypeople abreast of the established conclusions and significant recent developments in Pauline scholarship. No other single reference works...

The notion that all intelligent, moral creatures (angels, humans, devils) will be saved in the end is called universalism. But commonly universalism refers specifically to the salvation of all human beings. A number of Pauline texts have been thought to point toward universalism. Other Pauline texts speak of some perishing and have a particularistic understanding of salvation (restricted to the elect and/or believers). Some interpreters deal with this tension by trying to show how the