Tag Archives: determinism

Doomed, Doomed . . . Doomed to Happiness

Posted on 23 May 2022 by Fr Aidan Kimel

David Bentley Hart controversially asserts that human beings are doomed to everlasting happiness—yet should the claim be controversial? Christianity has long taught that the human being, created by the divine Word in the image of the Word, exists in dynamic orientation … Continue reading →

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The World is a Novel in the Mind of God

Posted on 19 October 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Can God determine our actions? One need not think more than a second or two. Of course he can, we answer. If CIA brainwashers and television advertising can cause us to act in specific ways, then the Creator of the … Continue reading →

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Apprehending Apokatastasis: The Necessary Choosing of the Good

Posted on 13 March 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Every human being is divinely ordered to God under the aspects of the transcendentals of being—the Truth, the Good, and the Beautiful. We hunger and thirst for union with him, for only in him can we enjoy supreme and overflowing … Continue reading →

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

Posted on 6 September 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

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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Suffering, Theodicy, and Apocatastasis

Posted on 19 August 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

“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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God Makes Us Freely Acting

Posted on 7 January 2017 by Fr Aidan Kimel

This article has been revised and republished under the title “Breaking the Cords of Fate”(8 November 2021) “We seem almost compelled,” remarks Hugh McCann, “to think there is some competition here: that when it comes to free will there is … Continue reading →

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The World is a Novel in the Mind of God

Posted on 2 January 2017 by Fr Aidan Kimel

This article has been substantially revised and republished under the same title (29 October 2021) Can God determine our actions? One need not think more than a second or two. Of course he can, we answer. If CIA brainwashers and … Continue reading →

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Freedom and Determinism: What’s the Difference?

Posted on 28 December 2016 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Free agency, states Hugh McCann, exhibits three essential features. First, free actions cannot be “the product of independent event-causal condi­tions. An autonomous agent has to be a center of novelty—a point from which, to the extent he influences it, the … Continue reading →

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