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Tag Archives: David Hart
Supplying the Missing Universalist Premise
Last week Dr Brendan Triffett published “Where the Chasm Really Lies: A Libertarian Infernalist Responds to Fr Aidan Kimel.” It’s not often that anyone directly replies to my writings on the greater hope, so I quickly read it. I confess … Continue reading
Posted in Eschatology
Tagged David Hart, divine love, eternal damnation, God, hell, universal salvation, universalism
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When Hell Becomes Dogma: Damning to Nothingness
My working principle: once eternal damnation is accepted by an ecclesial community as dogmatically binding, three things happen: Holy Scripture and the patristic tradition will be read through the dogma. Preaching and theological speculation will be governed by the dogma, … Continue reading
The Deep Patristic Roots of Hart’s Universalism: A Response to Fr Lawrence Farley
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
David Bentley Hart and the Moral Argument Against Hell
by Tom Belt I’ll get right to the point. I’m shocked that reviews of David Bentley Hart’s recent That All Shall Be Saved which reject his universalism all fail to engage his moral argument. I suspect there is a real will … Continue reading
If God is going to deify everyone anyway, why not deify everyone immediately?
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
Posted in David B. Hart, Eschatology
Tagged creation, David Hart, eschatology, evil, God, good, human being, sin, theodicy
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When Hell Becomes Dogma: The Closing of the Catholic Mind
My working principle: once eternal damnation is accepted by an ecclesial community as dogmatically binding, three things happen: Holy Scripture and the patristic tradition will be read through the dogma. Preaching and theological speculation will be governed by this dogma, … Continue reading
Universalism’s Convenientia
by Paul J. Griffiths Among the criteria that theologians use to determine what to say next and how to say it – to know how to go on in theology, that is – is appeal to convenientia.1 Fittingness, that is, … Continue reading
How Anthropomorphic is your G-O-D?
Confession time: for most of my parochial ministry, I was a theistic personalist, to use the term coined by Brian Davies. “Egads! Tell me that’s not true.” “Yes, I’m afraid so.” “But what is a theistic personalist?” “Someone who espouses … Continue reading
