Apocatastasis in western theology (1970s - today)

The teaching of apocatastasis, that is salvation of all, was rejected by the 5th Ecumenical Council of 553. However, it is back and has flourished much during the last five decades in the West. The article shows characteristic ideas and the fundamentals being ignored in each case. The idea of any person to be ready to accept God and be obliged to make a special effort to reject Him and thus become an object for special punishment after death, contradicts the very notion of original sin. Furthermore, there is no sense in discussing any possible change of a human after death, as time itself is characteristic of the worldly life only. However, we are to admit that tradition of the East does not know the very image of Christ being a strict cruel Judge penalizing people by damnation. So, in terms of the Western tradition the idea of apocatastasis seems to be just an attempt to relieve a good Christian of excessive intimidation.