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Category Archives: Theology
Fr John Behr: “The Gratitude of the Suffering Earth”
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Universal Salvation: Love Is Its Own Necessity
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
Posted in Eschatology, Theology
Tagged Anselm, Aquinas, Bonaventure, divine freedom, James Dominic Rooney, necessary truth, necessity, universal salvation
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The Christ, the Fall, and Echoes of Eden
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
God Creates the World from the Cross
“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
Posted in Theology
Tagged economic trinity, Irenaeus, Jesus Christ, John Behr, redemption, Robert Jenson, salvation history
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Reading the Scriptures with the Risen Christ
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
Posted in Bible, Theology
Tagged hermeneutics, historical criticism, historical-critical method, Holy Scripture, John Behr, sola scriptura, Stanley Hauerwas
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Returning to the Paschal Christ: The Pre-Post-Modernity of John Behr
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
Posted in Bible, Theology
Tagged historicism, history, Jesus Christ, John Behr, modernity, post-modernity, The Mystery of Christ
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Love Unmasked: Nietzsche on Eternal Hell
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
Posted in Eschatology, Theology
Tagged apocatastasis, Augustine, eternal damnation, hell, Nietzsche, universal salvation
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God Differs Differently: How Divine Transcendence Makes Possible the God-Man
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