Category Archives: Theology

Universal Salvation: Love Is Its Own Necessity

Posted on 30 November 2022 by Fr Aidan Kimel

I know that some are wondering why I have spent so much blog time featuring discussion of Fr James Dominic Rooney’s article “The Incoherences of Hard Universalism” and why I have now written yet another piece on it. I wonder … Continue reading →

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The Christ, the Fall, and Echoes of Eden

Posted on 27 November 2022 by Fr Aidan Kimel

It begins with the Fall and the introduc­tion of death and corrup­tion into the good world God has made. The ancient story is inscribed upon our hearts. Tempted by Satan, Adam and Eve partake of the forbidden fruit, plunge into … Continue reading →

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God Creates the World from the Cross

Posted on 17 November 2022 by Fr Aidan Kimel

“Since he who saves already existed, it was necessary that he who would be saved should come into existence, that the One who saves should not exist in vain.”1 This quotation from the great second-century bishop and theologian St Irenaeus … 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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Love Unmasked: Nietzsche on Eternal Hell

Posted on 24 October 2022 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Christopher Howell, Ph.D. Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric mov’d: To rear me was the … Continue reading →

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God Differs Differently: How Divine Transcendence Makes Possible the God-Man

Posted on 5 October 2022 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Docetism, Sabellianism, Subordinationism, Arianism, Nestorianism, Monophysitism—we know the names of the famous heresies that plagued the Church during the first millen­nium. Perhaps we can even describe them and explain why they were rejected. But what may not be clear in … Continue reading →

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Christian Perspectives on Free Will and Providence

Posted on 11 June 2022 by Fr Aidan Kimel
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