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Category Archives: Eschatology
Casting Limbo into Limbo
Fourteen years ago (or was it an eternity ago?), during my short stint in the Roman Catholic Church, I did a goodly amount of reading on the doctrine of limbo and wrote five articles on the subject for my old … Continue reading
Ambrose Andreano on “Patristic Universalism”
“I want you to see the future. Think of that dreadful judgment day when God gathers all the ‘goats’ together in what must be a most wicked city, tied down to the altar like Isaac: prepared and ready to face … Continue reading
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Ana Siljak on “D. B. Hart’s Inquisitor”
“Michael McClymond, in ‘Opiate of the Theologians,’ makes the plausible argument that we moderns have (in so many words) become soft. Christian universalism, he writes, is a ‘religion of humanity.’ a good-natured religion with all of its ‘spiritual shallowness.’ Lumping … Continue reading
Posted in David B. Hart, Eschatology
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Was St. Maximus Merely a Hopeful Universalist?
by Mark Chenoweth If St Maximus the Confessor read Jordan Daniel Woods’ essay on the differences between Hans Urs von Balthasar’s hopeful universalism and George MacDonald’s fully confident universalism, with which modern theologian would the saint find himself in agreement? … Continue reading
Posted in Eschatology
Tagged apocatastasis, eternal damnation, Gregory of Nyssa, hell, Maximus the Confessor, universal salvation
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“Let Every Mortal Leap for Joy”: Apocatastatic Hymnody in Orthodox Worship
by Brad (Reader Irenaeus) Jersak, Ph.D. “The primary means of theological education in the Orthodox Church is through worship.” ~ Archbishop (ret.) Lazar Puhalo Hymnody as Theology I began my decade-long journey toward Orthodoxy in 2003 under the tutelage of … Continue reading
Posted in Eschatology, Liturgy & Sermons
Tagged apocatastasis, Brad Jersak, Orthodox hymnody, universal salvation
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Apokatastasis and the Radical Vision of Unconditional Divine Love
What is at stake in the universalist/infernalist debate? Perhaps the best way to answer this is to first identify what is not at stake. What is not at stake is the christological foundation of salvation. I wholeheartedly affirm that salvation … Continue reading
Divine Retribution, Hell, and the Development of Dogma
In A.D. 754 Emperor Constantine convened a counsel of bishops in Hieria to condemn the veneration of icons and prohibit the practice in the catholic Church. It identified itself as the “Holy, Great, and Ecumenical Seventh Synod.” Twenty three years … Continue reading
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Tagged apokatastsis, damnation, hell, John Romanides, retribution, retributive punishment, river of fire, universal salvation
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Did the Fifth Ecumenical Council Condemn Universal Salvation?
When first presented with the universalist hope, many Orthodox and Roman Catholics immediately invoke the authority of the Fifth Ecumenical Council (A.D. 553), citing the famous fifteen anti-Origenist anathemas: “Apokatastasis has been dogmatically defined by the Church as heresy—see canon … Continue reading
