Monthly Archives: July 2015

Thinking Trinity: What if Jesus ain’t homoousios with the Father?

Posted on 31 July 2015 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Originally posted on Eclectic Orthodoxy:
What would happen to the gospel if the Nicene confession of the consubstantiality of the Father and the Son were not true? Would there even be a gospel? Consider the story of Jesus and the…

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Thinking Trinity: The Jigsaw Puzzle of the Homoousion

Posted on 30 July 2015 by Fr Aidan Kimel

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Once a believer has fully grasped the decisive significance of homoousion, there can be no returning to a more “biblical” or more “historical” Jesus; for the only Jesus that was and is is the incarnate…

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Thinking Trinity: Homoousion as Dogma

Posted on 29 July 2015 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Originally posted on Eclectic Orthodoxy:
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God; begotten, not made, being of one…

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Thinking Trinity: The Radical Homoousion

Posted on 28 July 2015 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Originally posted on Eclectic Orthodoxy:
When in A.D. 325 the bishops of the Council of Nicaea declared that Jesus Christ is begotten “from the substance of the Father” and “of one substance” with him, they probably did not foresee the…

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George Dragas on the Incarnation and the Holy Trinity

Posted on 27 July 2015 by Fr Aidan Kimel
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“Every instance of finite becoming or thought or desire subsists in the creature’s ‘ecstasy’ out of nonbeing into the infinite splendor of God”

Posted on 26 July 2015 by Fr Aidan Kimel

What then, one might well ask, is divine providence? Certainly all Christians must affirm God’s transcendent governance of everything, even fallen history and fallen nature, and must believe that by that governance he will defeat evil and bring the final … Continue reading →

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Jerry Walls: Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory

Posted on 24 July 2015 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Few contemporary philosophers have thought as deeply, nor written as clearly, about the Last Things as Jerry Walls. In 1992 he published his doctoral dissertation Hell: The Logic of Damnation. Ten years later he published Heaven: The Logic of Eternal … Continue reading →

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Universalism, Molinism, and the Metaphysics of Actuality

Posted on 21 July 2015 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Jeff Cook has completed his three-part series on universalism: “Universalism and Freedom.” Given that Steven Nemes has already published a lengthy response over at his blog, I thought I’d restrict myself to one feature of Cook’s argument—the nature of divine … Continue reading →

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