Acknowledgments and Bibliographical Notes 213
little detail as I can get away with. My purpose in these pages,
after all, has been to advance my own arguments on the mat-
ter, which I regard as sufficiently novel as to make a supporting
critical apparatus more or less impossible. So, for anyone inter-
ested in the current status quaestionis among those Christian
philosophers who like to engage in the more traditional lines
of debate, I can recommend two books that probably cover
the ground about as economically as one could hope. One is
Thomas Talbott's The Inescapable Love of God (Eugene, OR:
Cascade Books, 2014) and the other is John Kronen and Eric
Reitan's God's Final Victory (New York, London: Bloomsbury
Academic, 2013). For those interested in a compendious his-
torical account of ancient and mediaeval Christian universal-
ism, including an all but exhaustive list of the textual sources,
two books by the indefatigable patristics scholar Ilaria L. E.
Ramelli are worth consulting: The Christian Doctrine of Apo-
katastasis (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2013) and A Larger Hope?
(Eugene, 0 R: Cascade Books, 2018) - though I have to warn
readers that the former, having been published by Brill ( a press
loftily indifferent to the market of general readers), is oner-
ously expensive. Some argue that Ramelli puts too much in
when making her case; I disagree, but I can certainly concede
that she leaves practically nothing out.
There are only a very few texts quoted in these pages-
whether in their original forms or in translation - that re-
quire precise citation. In "Doubting the Answers" in Part One,
the volume I mention by Brian Davies is The Reality of God
and the Problem of Evil (London: Continuum, 2006). The epi-
graph of Part Two of this book is drawn from Isaac of Nine-
veh (Isaac of Syria), The Second Part, Chapters IV-XLI, trans.
Sebastian Brock (Leuven: Peeters, 1995), p. 165. The account of
Maurice Drury's exchange with Ludwig Wittgenstein recorded