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universalism

[ UK /jˌuːnɪvˈɜːsəlˌɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. the theological doctrine that all people will eventually be saved

How To Use universalism In A Sentence

  • Thanks in part to Iraq and Afghanistan, we are, decades later, backing off from this self-confident universalism. Time to avoid the dictatorship v democracy debate in Africa | David Booth
  • Scholars of nineteenth-century sentimentalism note the radical universalism underlying sentimental discourse as well as the broad values of political and social equality it assumes.
  • It hijacks the universalism of justice to serve partisan ideological ends.
  • The racism of the conquest narratives is replaced with a Christian universalism, where social divisions are set aside in favour of a common humanity in Christ.
  • Nationalism is a form of universalism when it makes universal claims about how the world should be organized, but it is particularistic with regard to individual nations.
  • He suggests that Unitarian Universalism is not so much afflicted with its own orthodoxy or even "orthopraxy" a favorite neologism among seminarians, but that it is tilting heavily toward "orthopatheia", a fixation on feeling the right things. Philocrites: August 2003 Archives
  • Those chapters use gender issues to illustrate the conflict between universalism and cultural relativism.
  • Luke uses this story as the supreme example of his theme of universalism.
  • World music has long been mustered by both camps to provide evidence for new theories, whether they stress cultural relativism or universalism.
  • Such avowed Protestants embrace universalism on the grounds that all are condemned in Christ's death but accepted in His resurrection.
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