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Category Archives: Theology
Purification by Atheism
by Olivier Clément I. Christianity against Freedom? Christianity first appeared as the affirmation of man’s liberty in the prison of a view of the universe in decay and seen no longer as the place of God’s revelation but as the … Continue reading
Apollinarius and the Truncated Humanity of Christ
Virtually all I know about Apollinaris of Laodicea is that his heresy elicited a memorable response from St Gregory the Theologian: “What has not been assumed has not been healed.” So in preparation for reading the letters of Gregory to … Continue reading
St Maximus the Confessor on the Cosmic Fall
Yesterday I discovered that for the past several years I have misunderstood David B Hart’s view of the fall of creation. I shared my misunderstanding on Facebook and Twitter, generating some interesting responses. Perhaps the most interesting—and certainly the most … Continue reading
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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
