222
suffering of the damned: assuage-
ment of, 9-10, 156-157; dispro-
portionate, 44; as evil, 81-82;
God's relationship to, 12, 17,
20, 27; in Greek tradition, 124;
indifference to/enjoyment of,
78-79, 132, 145-150, 157, 167-
169; justification/acceptance
of, 75; as self-chosen, 27, 36, 39,
80,146
suicide, 42
Tartarus, 112, 118
Tertullian, 78, 167
theism, 181
Theodore of Mopsuestia, 89
Thomism, 19-20, 35-37, 46-48,
149-150, 199,208
time: creation and, 139-140, 143;
meaning of scriptural refer-
ences to, 120-127
Timotheus II, 124
Timothy 1, 82, 96, 102, 187
Titus, epistle to, 96
Tophet, 113
transcendence: desire for, 53, 177;
of God, 54-58; of the Good, 37,
41, 42, 57, 60-61, 69, 173; theo-
logical problems mitigated by
appeal to, 56, 67
Trinity, 58, 154, 189
Index
Truth, God as, 41, 56, 80, 168-170,
178-179, 186-187
universalism: arguments against,
4, 89; arguments for, 2-3, 65,
89; certainty of, 66; early Chris-
tians' belief in, 1-2, 201, 205;
God as "all in all" and, 89,
142-143,158,161,164,193-195;
Gregory and, 142, 164; history
of, 1-2; hopeful, 66, 102; and
humanity, 140-158; of salva-
tion, 85-87, 90-91, 95-102, 146,
151, 155, 162, 164, 187; scriptural
evidence for, 65, 88, 94-102,
162-163
Valley of Hinnom, 112-115. See also
Gehenna
voluntarist tradition, 55
Western Christianity, errors of, 55,
77, 131, 133, 162
will. See desire, for God/the Good;
gnomic will; rational freedom;
soul
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 159-161
Xavier, Francis, 76
Zeus, 39