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Category Archives: Theology
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
Posted in Eschatology, Theology
Tagged apocatastasis, damnation, dogma, Eastern Orthodoxy, eschatology, hell, Isaac the Syrian, Sergius Bulgakov, universal salvation
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Orthodoxy, Dogma, and the Neuralgic Question of Doctrinal Development
The debate on apokatastasis inevitably raises the question: Has Orthodoxy definitively, infallibly, irreversibly, dogmatically rejected the universalist hope? Must Christians believe that some, perhaps many or even most, will—or as some prefer to say may—be eternally damned? Is it constitutive … Continue reading
Introducing St Theodore of Tarsus
by Fr James Siemens, Ph.D. Work by unknowns is easy to ignore. Those whose contributions failed to find a recorder in their time, or a relay later, slip from memory and get dismissed as insignificant. This is especially the case … Continue reading
Posted in Theology
Tagged Christology, incarnation, Jesus Christ, Maximus the Confessor, Theodore of Tarsus, theosis
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The 95 Theses of Richard Rex
I. Martin Luther did not nail the Ninety-Five Theses to the doors of the Castle Church in Wittenberg on 31 October 1517. II. That was a myth created by Philip Melanchthon through the conflation of hazy … Continue reading
