Category Archives: Theology

The Universality of Atonement

Posted on 5 February 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Back in the late 1980s my family and I were given use of a cabin on Cold Stream Pond in Maine. I took the opportunity to visit George Hunsinger, who was then teaching at Bangor Theological Seminary. Hunsinger was already … Continue reading →

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Fr Andrew Louth on “The Necessity of Platonism for Christian Theology”

Posted on 20 January 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel
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Closer to Truth: Jesus as God

Posted on 22 December 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel
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Faith-as-Trust and Faith-as-Authentication

Posted on 7 December 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Semyon Frank Semyon Lyudvigovich Frank was, in the judgment of his biographer Philip Boobbyer, “arguably Russia’s greatest twentieth-century philosopher.” Born in 1877 in Moscow and raised in Judaism, Frank became a revolutionary atheist as a teenager, before reflection led … Continue reading →

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Purification by Atheism

Posted on 30 November 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

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 →

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Apollinarius and the Truncated Humanity of Christ

Posted on 24 November 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

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 →

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St Maximus the Confessor on the Cosmic Fall

Posted on 14 November 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

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

Posted on 17 August 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

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 →

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