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Once Loved Always Loved: Chapter Three

Posted on 22 April 2024 by Fr Aidan Kimel

“Does God Desire All Men to be Saved?” The title pretty much tells us what chapter three of Once Loved Always Loved is about and for whom it is written. Do you need a hint? Our author, Andrew Hronich, was … Continue reading →

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The Unpreachability of Predestination

Posted on 1 October 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

When was the last time you heard a sermon preached on election and predestination? In thirty-plus years of priestly ministry I think I may have preached on it once. Christian pastors simply do not preach on it; and it doesn’t … Continue reading →

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A Reformed Case for Universalism

Posted on 8 January 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Jedidiah Paschall I am neither a scholar nor the son of a scholar. In truth, I am a son of a plumber, a Bible College dropout typically content to work away at fiction and poetry. This is not to … Continue reading →

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Is God Properly Described as “Love” in the Theology of John Calvin?

Posted on 27 October 2016 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Thomas Talbott, Ph.D.  When I first began to wonder how the Calvinists might interpret the Johannine declaration that God is love (see 1 John 4:8 and 16), I turned immediately to Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion, large portions … Continue reading →

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Jerry Walls: Hell is a Hell of a Choice

Posted on 4 August 2015 by Fr Aidan Kimel

“Father, I desire that they also, whom thou hast given me, may be with me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me in thy love for me before the foundation of the world” (John 17:24). … Continue reading →

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The Unpreachability of the “Doctrine” of Predestination

Posted on 11 November 2014 by Fr Aidan Kimel

When was the last time you heard a sermon preached on election and predestination? In thirty-plus years of priestly ministry I think I may have preached on it once. Christian pastors do not preach on the topic; and it doesn’t … 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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Tweaking Augustine: From Limited Atonement to Universalism

Posted on 3 September 2013 by Fr Aidan Kimel

In my previous article “The Catholic Church and the Return of Hell,” I asked, Why are Roman Catholics historically pessimistic about the eternal salvation of humanity, given its teaching on efficacious grace? Needless to say, the question can be expanded … Continue reading →

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