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Category Archives: Brian Moore
Mini-review: ‘Beneath the Silent Heavens’
A retelling—or perhaps the telling for the first time—of the story of Noe (Noah) and his family. Talking animals (Noe alone among humans can communicate with them), Nephilim, marital love that deepens over centuries, terrible evil, modern technology and culture … Continue reading
‘Beneath the Silent Heavens’ by Brian Moore
Wonderful news, Eclectic Orthodoxy readers! Our own Brian Moore has written a fantasy tale, Beneath the Silent Heavens, and it’s just been published. Here’s a description of the novel from the publisher: Beneath the Silent Heavens reimagines the story of the … Continue reading
The Vates Christ Jesus and the Struggle to Say Amen
by Brian C. Moore, Ph.D. I know atheists for whom discussion of God is equivalent to quibbling over whether or not invisible pink rabbits exist. They have been educated into imbecility. While capable of shrewd, instrumental acts of reason, they … Continue reading
Epistolary Adumbrations: Death, Life, and the Creatio ex Nihilo
by Brian C. Moore, Ph.D. The following post was originally two parts of what constituted a small dialogue between myself and a young woman who questioned certain aspects of David Bentley Hart’s arguments regarding the nature of freedom and the … Continue reading
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Tagged damnation, divine love, free will, God, human freedom, universal salvation, volition
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Sin, Hell, and the Victory of Pascha
by Brian C. Moore, Ph.D. We are made for joy and love and creativity. We are embodied because the care of the soul requires human touch and beauty, music and vision in order to thrive. Yet we live in a … Continue reading
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Tagged apocatastasis, divine love, Easter, Edward Feser, eternal damnation, evil, hell, universal salvation
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Musings on Analogy, Univocity, and the Metaphysics of Being
by Brian C. Moore, Ph.D. The perfect being god of theistic personalism (or as David Hart prefers, mono-poly-theism) is the perfection of any possible creature times infinity. Yet because such a god is on the same plane of existence as … Continue reading
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The Self and the Gospel
by Brian C. Moore, Ph.D. Recently, Father Kimel posted a meditation on the connection between proper love of self and theosis. These thoughts were inspired by some of Father Herbert McCabe’s practical cogitations on living the Christian life. Some readers, … Continue reading
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Tagged God, Jesus, love of neighbor, personhood, self-love, unconditional love
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