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Tag Archives: angels
White Walkers, Toll-Houses, and the Hermeneutic of Pascha
When I first heard about the aerial toll-houses, I dismissed them as the stuff of folklore, tales told by Old Nan to children when the winter days are short and the nights are long and cold. As terrifying as the … Continue reading
Posted in Eschatology
Tagged aerial toll-houses, afterlife, angels, damnation, death, demons, divine judgment, Eastern Orthodoxy, particular judgment, Seraphim Rose
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C. S. Lewis and the Fall: Must Death Always be Evil?
“For God is life, and the privation of life is death,” writes St Basil the Great. “Therefore Adam prepared death for himself through his withdrawal from God, in accord with what is written, ‘Behold, those who remove themselves from you … Continue reading
Posted in Inklings & Company
Tagged angels, C. S. Lewis, death, evil, original sin, Satan, sin, the Fall
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U-turns and Transcendentals
by Pastor Tom Belt I’m delighted to be back at Eclectic Orthodoxy – my home away from home. I’m always informed and challenged by the content and the company here. It’s like pulling a chair up to a warm hearth … Continue reading
Posted in David B. Hart, Eschatology
Tagged angels, Aquinas, David Hart, Ed Feser, eternal damnation, hell, Maximus the Confessor
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Larry Hurtado and the gods
I do not understand what Larry Hurtado, summarizing a forthcoming scholarly article, means when he writes of the 2nd Temple period: I engage the terminological issue of whether and/or how “monotheism” can be a suitable term for ancient Jewish religious … Continue reading
Posted in Bible
Tagged angels, divine beings, God, Larry Hurtado, monotheism, mythology, polytheism, Second Temple Judaism
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When Are Immortal Creatures Immortal?
“What is created is, of its nature, mortal.” I quoted the above sentence in my previous article, “The Ontological Entropy of the Zizioulian Universe.” I hoped it might evoke a comment or two. Assuming the accuracy of the translation, there … Continue reading
Posted in Zizioulas & Yannaras
Tagged angels, death, immortality, mortality, soul, Zizioulas
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