Monthly Archives: January 2016

“The metaphysics of the body and the flesh of metaphysics is love”

Posted on 30 January 2016 by Fr Aidan Kimel

The metaphysics of the body and the flesh of metaphysics is love. A breathing-in of life into the empty shell of concepts, a tactile material which clothes the language in the sinews, skin, and flesh of reality. Signifiers of that … Continue reading →

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Bulgakov on Apokatastasis and the Fallen Spirits

Posted on 28 January 2016 by Fr Aidan Kimel
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Theodicy, Hell, and David B. Hart

Posted on 27 January 2016 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Brian C. Moore, Ph.D. In his recent blog post “The Morality of Gehenna,” Father Lawrence Farley defends the compatibility of traditional notions of hell with the Goodness of the Christian God.  His voice is certainly not inhumane.  He recognizes … Continue reading →

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“Earth’s body, wonder of the principle of nature, and the call of that universal wonder is tangible in human flesh”

Posted on 26 January 2016 by Fr Aidan Kimel

You are all fair, my companion and there is no flaw in you. Nature’s yoke-fellow, closest companion of life, is all fair. Mine and not mine, nearest and farthest immediacy. Always resistant to being pinned down to what is fixed … Continue reading →

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“The privation of love always generates angry denouncers or astringent prophets”

Posted on 25 January 2016 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Love emerges like the dawn and dispenses all the fears of the night shadows. That is why a radiant fearlessness is also a sign of true love. He who has experienced blessed reciprocity does not fear because he does not … Continue reading →

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St Thomas Aquinas: Is God Making it Snow?

Posted on 23 January 2016 by Fr Aidan Kimel

As readers of Eclectic Orthodoxy know, I am obsessed with the relationship between divine causality/agency and creaturely causality/agency and have devoted several blogs to it, including a five-article series that begins with the physicist Stephen Hawking and ends with the metaphysician Austin … Continue reading →

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“The final disarming of self-giving attires itself in the language of revelatory nakedness”

Posted on 23 January 2016 by Fr Aidan Kimel

We read love in the glance, in the smile, in the grace of movement. The body speaks the soul’s language. The soul expresses life’s yearning. With the light of unbounded expressiveness. Even in the most egocentric thirst for pleasure, the … Continue reading →

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“Logic and law are the weapons of religion, the weapons that protect the ego”

Posted on 21 January 2016 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Love has no logic—with what logic does a saint pray for reptiles and demons? It is religion that has logic, armored with the panoply of the law. Logic and law are the weapons of religion, the weapons that protect the … Continue reading →

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