To Suibhne Astray. I don't think this really belongs in the YEC thread.
I put in the OP about Johannes Scotus Eriugena (who presumably came from, and learned his trade in your neck of the woods.) He had the idea - which was subsequently trashed by the hierarchy - that the point was actually to bring all of creation back to God. Not out of hell, but to heaven. Or possibly Nirvana - he seemed to have picked up some ideas from further east than Ireland.
It's a thread which has never been entirely absent from Christianity - see Mother Julian of Norwich, for example. But it doesn't suit the suits (Ok, it isn't business, so the frocks) to let this be publicised much, so they merrily go on putting stumbling blocks in others ways.