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Apprehending Apokastasis: Human Being is Absolute Desire for God
Finally and at long last, we arrive at David Bentley Hart’s fourth meditation in That All Shall Be Saved. This is my favorite chapter of the book. It certainly is the philosophically meatiest and most challenging, which is probably why … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, David B. Hart, Eschatology
Tagged creator, David Hart, desire for God, eternal damnation, freedom, hell, our hearts are restless, universal salvation
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Dionysian Ponderings: The God Who is Theophany
All created being, all that is and will ever be, flows from the one transcendent Deity who is Father, Son, and Spirit. St Dionysius the Areopagite seems to be clear on this point, but it’s difficult to pigeonhole him in one … Continue reading
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Tagged creator, divine creation, Eriugena, God, Neoplatonism, panentheism, Pseudo-Dionysius, theophany
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The World is a Hazlenut We Must Nought
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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Tagged creation, creator, God, happiness, hazlenut, Julian of Norwich, nothing, sin
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Division of Being in St Gregory of Nyssa’s Contra Eunomium
by Robert F. Fortuin The ultimate division of all that exists is made by the line between ‘created’ and ‘uncreated,’ the one being regarded as a cause of what has come into being, the other as coming into being thereby. … Continue reading
Posted in Gregory of Nyssa, Robert Fortuin
Tagged creator, creature, divine being, divine infinity, divine simplicity, God, Gregory of Nyssa, Holy Trinity
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Why Denial of Divine Simplicity Implies Atheism
For much of my theological life, I have not understood the notion of divine simplicity nor thought it important to understand. What has divine simplicity to do with the lively God of the Bible‽ Even after I began to read … Continue reading
Posted in David B. Hart, Philosophical Theology
Tagged atheism, contingency, creation, creator, David Bradshaw, David Hart, divine simplicity, God
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St Thomas Aquinas: Creatures are Nothing but Nothing
Is it possible for God to create from out of nothing? This is the question that St Thomas Aquinas explores in his second article on creation in his commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard. He answers in the affirmative. … Continue reading
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Tagged creatio ex nihilo, creation, creation from nothing, creator, creatures, God, nothingness, Thomas Aquinas
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St Thomas Aquinas: God as the Act of Being
Well over a decade ago, I asked Fr Augustine Dinoia (now Archbishop Dinoia) the best way for me to begin reading St Thomas Aquinas. He recommended Timothy McDermott’s concise translation of the Summa Theologiæ. I began reading the book, making … Continue reading
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Tagged being, creatio ex nihilo, creation, creator, existence, God, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism
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