Pierre Cuppé

Pierre Cuppé (c. 1664 - c. 1748) was a French Catholic priest in the Saintonge region of western France, a canon regular of the Augustinian order and prior-curate of the parish of Bois in the diocese of Saintes. He is remembered for the treatise Le ciel ouvert à tous les hommes, which argued from scripture and reason that all people will finally be saved; it was printed in French in 1743 and appeared in English translation as Heaven Open to All Men in 1745.

A theological treatise by Pierre Cuppé, a Catholic priest of Saintonge in western France, arguing "without unsettling the practice of religion" that all men will finally be saved. Written around 1716 and long circulated in manuscript before printing, it is a rare witness to universalism inside early eighteenth-century Catholicism, and its English translation (this is the 1745 London printing, scanned from the British Library's copy) put the argument before the same public that would soon read Siegvolck and Winchester. Its notoriety was great enough to draw published refutations.

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