Tag Archives: atonement

Justifying Justification by Faith

Posted on 20 October 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Let’s assume that integrating justification by faith into a comprehensive understanding of salvation would be a constructive and positive thing for Eastern theology to do. I can think of several reasons why: Justification is an important theme in the New … Continue reading →

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Slowly Reading St Athanasius: the God we didn’t invent, rotten avocados, and other vast imponderables

Posted on 8 July 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by John Stamps Kids love to ask their parents questions. Kids think nothing of asking tough questions. They ask them as easily as they eat or play or sleep. They think these questions are harm­less. But the children are wrong. … Continue reading →

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Judas Iscariot: Apostle to the Reprobate

Posted on 10 April 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

In these days he went out to the mountain to pray; and all night he contin­ued in prayer to God. And when it was day, he called his disciples, and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles; Simon, whom … Continue reading →

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The Three Sisters and Ezekelian Apokatastasis

Posted on 22 November 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Ezekiel 16:44-58 This passage in Ezekiel caught me by surprise, and the surprise intensified when I read Robert Jenson’s commentary. I was not expecting an eschatological turn. Suddenly we find ourselves at what might be called a last judgment. Behold, … Continue reading →

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Salvation in Christ: The Orthodox Approach

Posted on 21 June 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Metropolitan Kallistos Ware Let me begin with a question that was put to me sometime ago in the railway train. A person sitting opposite fixed me with a piercing gaze and said, “Are you saved?” Now how did I … Continue reading →

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Paschal Mystery: The Victory of the Cross and the Hiddenness of Easter

Posted on 22 April 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

We need to be careful, Herbert McCabe warns, not to think of Easter as annulling the cross, as if all is now bliss because “the deus ex machina has given us a happy ending after all” (God, Christ and Us, p. … Continue reading →

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If atonement ain’t penal, why the cross?

Posted on 18 April 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

The theory of penal substitutionary atonement provides a clear, simple-to-understand explanation of the events of Holy Week. On the cross the eternal Son endures the wrath of God for the sins of the world. He stands in our place; he suffers the … Continue reading →

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Penal Substitutionary Atonement and the Living Christ

Posted on 16 April 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

“The glorification of the Son of God is the glorification of the human race, for the glory of God is the glory of man, and that glory is love!” ~ George MacDonald Good Friday is almost upon us. In three … Continue reading →

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