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Monthly Archives: August 2020
God in Science: No Need for that Hypothesis
It’s funny how one can remember something read decades earlier but cannot remember the contents of a book read only last week. Back in seminary I read a little book by Arthur A. Vogel titled The Power of His Resurrection. … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophical Theology
Tagged creatio ex nihilo, creation, deism, Diogenes Allen, God, God of the gaps, Isaac Newton, science, universe
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“Why be surprised if people who set their hearts on Christ and want to follow him renounce themselves out of love?”
“If anyone wishes to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross and come after me.” Our Lord’s command seems hard and heavy, that anyone who wants to follow him must renounce himself. But … Continue reading
Posted in Augustine, Citations
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The Path Upward: Liturgy, Universalism, and George Seferis
by Christopher Howell Burning burning burning burning O Lord Thou pluckest me out O Lord Thou pluckest burning ~ T.S. Eliot ~ “When you asked me about hell the other day,” wrote Philip Sherrard in a 1966 letter to the … Continue reading
St. Gregory of Nyssa–Teacher of Eternal Damnation?
by C. T. Cohen One reader of Eclectic Orthodoxy has brought up two passages from St. Gregory of Nyssa’s work De Infantibus Praemature Abreptis (On Infant’s Early Deaths). On the face of it, one of these two sections may suggest … Continue reading
Posted in Gregory of Nyssa
Tagged damnation, Gregory of Nyssa, Infants' Early Deaths, universal salvation
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“Peter, the teacher of the world, was permitted to sin, so that having been forgiven himself he would be merciful to others”
Peter was to be entrusted with the keys of the Church, or rather, he was entrusted with the keys of heaven; to him would be committed the whole people of God. The Lord told him: “Whatever you bind on earth … Continue reading
Posted in Citations
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“The Spirit of the Grand Inquisitor” by Nikolai Berdyaev
This following article was written by the Russian Orthodox Philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev, soon after his friend Fr. Sergius Bulgakov received his first condemnation from the Moscow Patriarchate, on September 7th of 1935. It was published in the December issue of … Continue reading
Freedom of Thought in the Orthodox Church
by Fr. Sergius Bulgakov I do not wish to consider the actual question of my own particular case. I will only try to explain to you the general principles of freedom in the Orthodox Church. Can freedom of thought exist … Continue reading
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Dogma, Damnation, and the Eucatastrophe of the Jesus Story
In both The Orthodox Church and “Dogma and Dogmatic Theology,” Sergius Bulgakov cites eschatology, among others, as a topic of theology open to dogmatic definition, the implication being that standard Orthodox teaching on the last things—including everlasting perdition—can only be … Continue reading