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My view of Justinian actually has nothing to do with universalism. I am not a universalist. Universalism, as taught by certain Anabaptists, is actually rejected in our confessions.
I believe apoctasis is biblical, to a certain extent, but how it reconciles with other established truths is not something I believe that can be easily reconciled.
I agree with Hart that Origen is often treated unfairly by many Orthodox churchmen. Alot of his ideas are heretical only retrospectively. At the time he lived, orthodoxy was far more fluid. As St. Gregory's theological speculations show, material heresy is not necessarily a crime and it does not render someone outside the fold.
Nyssa didn't speculate and was never in error. Fathers have affirmed his understanding while rejecting Origen's. plus, Origen was condemned in his lifetime by St Demitrius of Alexandria as well as very vocally by St Epiphanios of Salamis, both long before St Justinian.
articulation was always flexible, but Orthodoxy never is.
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