Tag Archives: Augustine

St Augustine on the ‘Last Things’ and Human Destiny: Is Eschatological Universalism Possible?

Posted on 29 November 2022 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Fr. Robert Deinhammer, S.J. In this essay, I am going to outline some basic aspects of Augustinian eschatology and identify its problems. What is the ultimate destiny of the human race according to St. Augustine? Was Augustine right in … Continue reading →

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Love Unmasked: Nietzsche on Eternal Hell

Posted on 24 October 2022 by Fr Aidan Kimel

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 →

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St Augustine of Hippo and the Misericordes

Posted on 2 August 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Over the past decade I have noticed—and perhaps you have too—that most Christians who have thought about matters eschatological believe that Origen of Alexandria concocted out of the blue the doctrine of universal salvation. But in truth the greater hope … Continue reading →

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Apprehending Apokatastasis: Predestinating to Perdition

Posted on 13 February 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

No theological topic provokes more angst, consternation, and passionate debate than the Latin doctrine of absolute predestination (yes, even more so than apokatastasis). No matter how carefully formulated and gently proclaimed, what we hear is this: from the mass of … Continue reading →

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Clinging to Externals: Weak Faith and the Power of the Sacraments

Posted on 8 January 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Phillip S. Cary, Ph.D. Behind the debates about the objectivity of Christ’s presence in the Reformed view of the supper are crucial pastoral questions about the nature of faith, and I think it will bring clarity to the debate … Continue reading →

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Why is Presdestination Missing in Action?

Posted on 30 September 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Something is wrong with traditional formulations of the doctrine of divine predestination. For over fifteen hundred years, the theologians of the Church—Origen, St Augustine of Hippo, St John of Damascus, St Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin, Luis de Molina, Domingo Báñez, … Continue reading →

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The Ecumenical Stain of Original Sin

Posted on 5 June 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Do Orthodoxy and Catholicism significantly disagree on original sin? Both agree that by his sin and disobedience Adam broke fellowship with God and introduced into the world chaos, disharmony, corruption, evil, and death. But Orthodoxy dissents from Catholicism, we are … Continue reading →

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Augustine of Hippo–the Patron Saint of Skeptics?

Posted on 3 December 2018 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Alexander Earl How do we know what we know? Do we even know anything? What does it mean to know something, anyhow? Come to think of it, how do you know you’re not dreaming, that these words are not … Continue reading →

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