Tag Archives: church fathers

To See God Crucified: The Theopaschism of St Gregory Nazianzen

Posted on 2 January 2022 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Before there was Jürgen Moltmann and his celebrated book The Crucified God, there was St Gregory the Theologian. Of the early Church Fathers none spoke more directly and more unitively of the death of the eternal Son. The gospel is … Continue reading →

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The Deep Patristic Roots of Hart’s Universalism: A Response to Fr Lawrence Farley

Posted on 2 February 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Mark Chenoweth Many of the critics of David Bentley Hart’s presentation of universalism in his That All Shall Be Saved argue that he doesn’t give nearly enough weight to church tradition. I agree. However, these critics, the latest one … Continue reading →

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Atonement and the Image of God

Posted on 12 April 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel
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Vicarious Faith, Tom Torrance, and a Few Memories

Posted on 11 October 2016 by Fr Aidan Kimel

It’s not often these days that Eclectic Orthodoxy gets noticed, but over at Reformissio, Jonathan Kleis mentioned me in his recent article “Athanasius, T. F. Torrance and the Vicarious Humanity of Christ,” and I would be remiss if I did not … Continue reading →

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Dogma and Doctrine in the Orthodox Church

Posted on 15 February 2016 by Fr Aidan Kimel

(This article has been substantially revised, expanded, and republished under the title “Orthodoxy, Dogma, and the Neuralgic Question of Doctrinal Development.”) The debate on apokatastasis inevitably raises the question: Has the Orthodox Church definitively, infallibly, irreversibly excluded the universalist hope? … Continue reading →

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To See God Crucified: The Theopaschism of St Gregory Nazianzen

Posted on 10 October 2013 by Fr Aidan Kimel

“We need an incarnate God, a God put to death, so that we might live, and we were put to death with him.” (Or. 45.28) Before there was Jurgen Moltmann, there was St Gregory the Theologian. Of the early Church … Continue reading →

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John Zizioulas and the Created-Uncreated Dialectic

Posted on 16 April 2013 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Well over twenty years ago, on the urging of Fr Stephen Freeman, I purchased and read Being as Communion by John Zizioulas. I was most interested in Zizioulas’s ecclesiological writings, but I was perhaps most challenged by his reflections on … Continue reading →

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St Athanasius: The Death of Death in the Death of God

Posted on 15 April 2013 by Fr Aidan Kimel

“For the Word, realizing that in no other way would the corruption of human beings be undone except, simply, by dying …” (Inc. 9). St Athanasius the Great knows this to be true, not through philosophical reflection or even biblical … Continue reading →

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