Category Archives: Grace, Justification & Theosis

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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Humanity’s Natural Access to Grace

Posted on 14 January 2023 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Dr Nathan Jacobs recently posted on his substack an article on “The Eastern Patristic View of the Soul through the Eighth Century.” At one point he briefly discusses why the nature-grace  divide, so characteristic of Latin theology, is absent in … Continue reading →

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David Bentley Hart on Grace

Posted on 20 December 2022 by Fr Aidan Kimel
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The Caponian Vision of (Almost) Apokatastasis

Posted on 17 March 2022 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Having completed my series on the parables of Jesus as interpreted by Robert Farrar Capon, I’d like to bring into the discussion his soteriological reflections as presented in his books The Mystery of Christ, published in 1993, and Between Noon … Continue reading →

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The Scandalous Injustice of Grace: St Isaac the Syrian and Pope John Paul II

Posted on 27 July 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Back in 2008, “60 Minutes” interviewed the Boston button man John Martorano. The inter­view is unsettling. In a quiet, detached, matter-of-fact tone, Martorano describes the twenty confessed murders he committed during his years as an enforcer for the Winter Hill … Continue reading →

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The Nothing of Grace and the Apokatastasis of Justification by Faith

Posted on 2 June 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel

My adult Christian life, both pre- and post-seminary, has been marked by theological pas­sions. Holy Trinity, Incarnation, Eucharist, feminist language for divinity, ecclesial authority—at any given point in time these topics have captured and monopolized my intellect. I would buy … Continue reading →

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Baptized into the Eschatological In-between

Posted on 8 November 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

For in Christ Jesus the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority. In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by … Continue reading →

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Grace Ain’t Cheap–It’s Free!

Posted on 3 November 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

When pastors become troubled by the pre­sence of so many nominal believers in their congregations, they typically begin to preach Bonhoeffer’s distinction between cheap and costly grace: “Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus … Continue reading →

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