On CF.com Universalism is considered Heterodox but can be discussed along with full preterism, annhilationism and a few other peculiar beliefs which are still Nicene-compliant in Controversial Christian Theology, but my understanding that the anti-Nicene heresies of Arianism, Pneumatomacchianism and Gnosticism are now no longer discussed or in the case of J/W Arianism, are limited to Christianity and World Religions, due to past problems of flamewars that happened before I joined.
However, it is my professional opinion as a scholar of theology and the senior presbyter of two conservative High Church Congregationalist parishes that the views expressed by @MMXX are not Universalism but rather represent a hope, also expressed by CS Lewis, St. Gregory of Nyssa, and St. Isaac the Syrian, among others, for Apokatastasis, which is different from stating that Apokatastasis or Universal Salvation is an absolute certainty, which we see for example in The Book of the Bee by Mar Solomon of Akhat, the 13th century Bishop of Basra in the Assyrian Church of the East, which even then is a specimen of apokatastasis and not Universalism.
This is of course a particularly nasty form of Apokatastasis, because, if ome accepts, as I do, the soteriological argument of His Eminence Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, the Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Diokleia (auxilliary bishop in the UK) and Emeritus Professor of Eastern Christian Studies at Oxford, the soteriological argument that the one thing God cannot do is force us to love Him, because of the mutual synergia that true love entails, and in this case it appears that Mar Solomon believed it could be coerced, but still, his soteriology quoted above, which I should note is not official Assyrian doctrine, is still apokotastasis and not universalism per se, whereas the universalist blindly argues that everyone is saved, whereas those who argued for apokatastasis ranged from pointing out, as CS Lewis said, that the doors of Hell are locked on the inside, to arguing in the manner of Mar Solomon that given the enormous amount of time, a restoration of creation to its original glory or a newer and more perfect condition becomes something of an inevitability.
Thus, one can identify a subtle but important distinction between the accepted belief of some church fathers in apokatasis, and the monergistic imposition of salvation even on misotheists, who Byzantine theologians argued would experience the all-consuming fire that is God’s infinite love as pure agony.
Having thought it over I'll alter my original comment some.
Throughout scripture it says that God wants to save the world.
My belief is that in the long run God will get whatever He wants, in all things, whatever the outcome may be. As to CS Lewis' comment, I grew up with John MacArthur (whom some refer to as hyper-Calvinist) as the family pastor. And what I remember hearing when I was a kid, is that if a bus headed for Heaven drove down to Hell to pick up passengers, no one there would get onboard.
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