Tag Archives: David Hart

Universalism: The Only Theodicy? A Review Essay of ‘That All Shall Be Saved’

Posted on 16 September 2019 by

by Shinji Akemi, Ph.D. Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Matt. 7:9 Some scholarly works appear on the scene with such force that the intellectual landscape suffers … Continue reading →

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Tom Talbott Reviews ‘That All Shall Be Saved’ (Part IV)

Posted on 6 September 2019 by

by Thomas Talbott, Ph.D. Predestination unto Glory Christians have traditionally held that, because they are saved by grace, they can take no credit for their own salvation, all of the credit for which goes to God. As Paul himself put … Continue reading →

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‘That All Shall Be Saved’: An Introductory Review

Posted on 30 August 2019 by

Four years ago David Bentley Hart announced on Eclectic Orthodoxy that he subscribes to the doctrine of apokatastasis and hoped to write a book on the subject. I do not know if this was the first time he had ever … Continue reading →

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Suffering, Theodicy, and Apocatastasis

Posted on 19 August 2019 by

“What then, one might well ask, is divine providence?” David Bentley Hart poses this ques­tion after pondering upon the evil and suffering of the world in his beautiful little book The Doors of the Sea. Hart compares the orthodox Christian … Continue reading →

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Dionysian Ponderings: Transcendence and the Plotinian One

Posted on 30 May 2018 by

I come to my reading of the Corpus Areopagaticum with a specific understanding of divine transcendence, an understanding which I will be testing along the way. We might put it this way: God infinitely surpasses all creaturely distinctions and dualities—transcendence … Continue reading →

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Hartian Illuminations: Transcendence Beyond Negation and the Analogy of Being

Posted on 22 January 2018 by

In this series of “illuminations” I will be citing passages that I have found particularly instructive from the essays collected in The Hidden and the Manifest, followed by a question or brief comment. I hope they will generate good discussion. “I … Continue reading →

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Theosis and the Palamite Distinction: Questions & Concerns

Posted on 2 October 2017 by

by Fr Aidan Kimel That there exists in God a real distinction between his essence and his energies, theologians assure us, is an irreformable dogma of the Orthodox Church. If so, it is a curious dogma, originating in a question … Continue reading →

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