Tag Archives: Augustine

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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In Defense of Christian Platonism

Posted on 4 July 2018 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Alexander Earl “That it is especially with the Platonists that we must carry on our disputations on matters of theology, their opinions being preferable to those of all other philosophers.” ~ St Augustine of Hippo I. Introductions St Augustine … Continue reading →

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Why is Predestination Missing in Action?

Posted on 9 November 2014 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Something is wrong with traditional formulations of the doctrine of divine predestination. For over fifteen hundred years theologians of the Church—Augustine, John Cassian, John of Damascus, Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, John Calvin, Luis de Molina, Robert Bellarmine, Jacobus Arminius, … Continue reading →

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St Augustine and the Varieties of Monergism

Posted on 30 September 2014 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Phillip Cary, Ph.D. Synergism is just a Greek way of saying “co-operation,” which in turn is just a Latin way of saying “working together.” Paul uses the corresponding Greek verb when he describes himself and his colleagues as “co-working” … Continue reading →

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