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If God is going to deify everyone anyway, why not deify everyone immediately?

Posted on 20 January 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by David Bentley Hart Frankly, Al, I find the question very strange. In part, because its premise is an absolute banality: that life is a kind of contest, played within the arbitrary constraints of the clock, at the end of … Continue reading →

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Double Agency: Conceiving Divine and Creaturely Causality

Posted on 7 October 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

We begin, I suggest, by getting clear in our minds the kind of relationship that exists between Creator and creatures: God’s creative activity is not external to the universe, as is our relation to such things as stoves and books. … Continue reading →

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Ex Nihilo Nonnihil Fit: “from nothing something comes”

Posted on 6 September 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Can we imagine the universe spontaneously emerging from nothing? I would have thought that the answer would obviously and logically be no—as long as nothing is understood as it was in classical philosophy and theology: the absence of any thing … Continue reading →

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It’s Tortoises All the Way Down!

Posted on 2 September 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

“In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth. Yet the earth was invisible and unformed, and darkness was over the abyss, and a divine wind was being carried along over the water.” (Gen 1:1-2) That the one God … Continue reading →

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Exorcizing the God of the Gaps

Posted on 1 September 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

The rise of modern science created a problem for Christian theology. If God is not scientifi­cally needed to explain why water freezes at 32°F or why the stars come out at night, if the universe is just a self-powered machine … Continue reading →

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God in Science: No Need for that Hypothesis

Posted on 30 August 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

It’s funny how one can remember something read decades earlier but cannot remember the contents of a book read only last week. Back in seminary I read a little book by Arthur A. Vogel titled The Power of His Resurrection. … Continue reading →

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Ainulindalë: The Secret of the Secret Fire

Posted on 19 February 2018 by Fr Aidan Kimel

You cannot pass. I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass. Gandalf’s confrontation … Continue reading →

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The World is a Hazlenut We Must Nought

Posted on 3 November 2017 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Of the sixteen showings received by Julian of Norwich on the 15th of May, 1373, the third immediately grabbed my theological attention: The third is that our Lord God, al mighty, all wisdom, and all love, right also verily as … Continue reading →

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