I do not recall when I first read Metropolitan Kallistos Ware’s article “Dare We Hope for the Salvation of All?”1 Whenever it was, it powerfully confirmed the hopeful universalism that had formed in my soul in the mid-90s after reading Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Dare We Hope That All Men Be Saved? To my surprise, I found Ware more persuasive than Balthasar—more persuasive, perhaps, than he intended. His eschatological optimism permeates his article. One might even be excused for concluding that he truly believes that all will be saved, though he qualifies his confidence with this maxim: We may hope and pray for the reconciliation of all, but we must not teach it as doctrine.…