311 Ellen Scully Universal Salvation & Marius Victorinus’s Cosmology Ellen Scully 16. UNIVERSAL SALVATION AS A SOTERIOLOGICAL IMPLICATION OF MARIUS VICTORINUS’S COSMOLOGY Scholarship on Marius Victorinus’s position concerning the question of universal salvation is, in the past century, nearly nonexistent.1 However, in the 1800s the delineation of Victorinus as a proponent of universal salvation was such a commonplace in certain circles that in the second half of the century, the well-respected Chambers’s Encyclopedia lists Victorinus in its “Universal- ists” entry.2 One interesting facet about both the recognition of Victorinus as a universalist in the nineteenth century and the lack of such a recognition in the twentieth and twenty-frst centuries is that both construals sufer from a decided lack of positive argumentation. 1. Te one great exception is Ilaria Ramelli, who presents Victorinus as a proponent of universal salvation (Ilaria Ramelli, Te Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis: A Critical Assessment fom the New Testament to Eriugena [Leiden: Brill, 2013], 607–16). However, Ramelli’s argument sufers from er- rant citations as well as a lack of citations, a policy of translating early Christian sources in the most universalism-friendly way regardless of context, and a program of interpreting early Christian authors in light of Origen, whether or not there is historical and/or textual support for such a connection. For an analysis of the scholarly strength and reliability of Ramelli’s book, see Riemer Roukema, review of Te Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis: A Critical Assessment fom the New Testament to Eriugena, by Ilaria Ramelli, Augustiniana 64 (2014): 282–87. 2. Chambers’s Encyclopedia, vol. 9 (Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, 1873), 662. Briggman_Scully prel first pages_rev2.indd 311 Briggman_Scully prel first pages_rev2.indd 311 2/24/22 2:02 PM 2/24/22 2:02 PM