Category Archives: Bible

The Father, Justice, and the Hermeneutic of Love

Posted on 18 March 2023 by Fr Aidan Kimel

When we confess that God is just, what is it that we mean? Perhaps we mean that God rewards good acts and punishes evil acts in the exact propor­tion they deserve. Let us call this the view of the man … Continue reading →

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The Morning After: A Dialogue Between Judas Iscariot and Jesus of Nazareth

Posted on 16 March 2023 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Ray S. Anderson Why have you come to torment me? Aren’t you satisfied that I perished from this earth by my own hands? Leave me alone, Jesus of Nazareth. Let me go to the hell I deserve! I betrayed … Continue reading →

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The Inescapable Love of God: St Paul and Eternal Damnation

Posted on 11 December 2022 by Fr Aidan Kimel

2 Thessalonians 1:9—this is the verse most frequently invoked to prove the thesis that the Apostle Paul teaches God’s everlasting damnation of the wicked. Before preceding any further, I’d like to ask you to read the first twelve verses of … Continue reading →

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The Inescapable Love of God: The Aiónion Punishment of Gehenna

Posted on 8 December 2022 by Fr Aidan Kimel

But what about hell? This is the question we all want answered. Did not Jesus and his Apostles explicitly warn us of the dire consequences of disbelief and impenitence? Did they not plainly teach that those who reject the divine … Continue reading →

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The Inescapable Love of God: Was St Paul a Universalist?

Posted on 6 December 2022 by Fr Aidan Kimel

The universalist confessor faces what appears to be an insurmountable challenge—reconciling his convictions with the plain and obvious testimony of the Holy Scriptures. Traditional Christians have long believed in the real possibility of everlasting damnation because this is, so they … Continue reading →

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Reading the Scriptures with the Risen Christ

Posted on 15 November 2022 by Fr Aidan Kimel

How was it that the disciples came to know Jesus as Lord, Son of God, incarnate Word? They did not acquire this knowledge by merely accompanying him on his travels around Galilee—the gospels make this point clearly enough. Nor did they … Continue reading →

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Returning to the Paschal Christ: The Pre-Post-Modernity of John Behr

Posted on 14 November 2022 by Fr Aidan Kimel

In his book The Mystery of Christ, Fr John Behr advances a two-pronged attack on modern theology: It treats dogmas as finished formulae, which can then be employed by the theologian without regard to “the way in which they were … Continue reading →

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That All Shall Agree? David Bentley Hart, Romans 5:18-19, and Universal Salvation

Posted on 19 October 2022 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Daniel O’Brien The famed American philosopher and Orthodox theologian David Bentley Hart caused no small outrage among Christian theologians of all denominations when he released his book That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation in 2019, appealing to … Continue reading →

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