Universal salvation in late antiquity Porphyry of Tyre and the pagan-christian debate - Simmons, Michael Bland (New York, New York Oxford University Press, 2015)
Porphyry of Tyre : life & historical contexts -- Contextualizing a Porphyrian soteriology -- De philosophia ex oraculis : soteriological structure and contents -- The contra Christianos in the context of universalism -- Eusebius and Porphyry : the theophany -- The historical and cultural context of universalism -- The meaning of salvation in a Greco-Roman milieu -- Philosophia ex oraculis : a tripartite universalism -- Porphyry & Iamblichus -- Eschatological salvation -- Historical context : Caracalla to Constantine -- Religious universalism : paganism and Christianity -- Conclusions.
Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: Porphyry, -- approximately 234-approximately 305.; Salvation -- Comparative studies; Salvation -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600.; Universalism; Rome -- Religion