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Tag Archives: divine love
Apprehending Apokatastasis: Will You Weep for the Damned?
In his third meditation in That All Shall Be Saved, David Hart advances an argument that neatly rhymes with his espousal of St Gregory of Nyssa’s corporate understanding of the Incarnation: we are saved not as solitary individuals but only as … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, David B. Hart, Eschatology
Tagged Aquinas, damnation, David Hart, divine love, eric reitan, heaven, hell, saints
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The Wrath of God and the Horrors of Divine War
I have now read chapters 4-7 of the Book of Ezekiel. The prophetic words are horrifying. If Ezekiel had spoken them to me in 6th century BC, I would either have secreted myself in a cave or run the pretender … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Robert Jenson
Tagged Babylonians, divine love, divine wrath, Ezekiel, God, Jerusalem, punishment
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Paschal Mystery: The Victory of the Cross and the Hiddenness of Easter
We need to be careful, Herbert McCabe warns, not to think of Easter as annulling the cross, as if all is now bliss because “the deus ex machina has given us a happy ending after all” (God, Christ and Us, p. … Continue reading
Posted in Herbert McCabe & Friends
Tagged atonement, cross, divine love, Easter, empty tomb, Good Friday, Herbert McCabe, Jesus Christ, Josef Jungmann, resurrection
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If atonement ain’t penal, why the cross?
The theory of penal substitutionary atonement provides a clear, simple-to-understand explanation of the events of Holy Week. On the cross the eternal Son endures the wrath of God for the sins of the world. He stands in our place; he suffers the … Continue reading
Posted in Herbert McCabe & Friends
Tagged atonement, death, divine love, Good Friday, Herbert McCabe, life, original sin, penal substitutionary atonement
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Dionysian Ponderings: Creatio ex Nihilo, Divine Energies, and the Erotic God
Did St Dionysius the Areopagite espouse the catholic understanding of the creatio ex nihilo? As noted in the preceding article, this understanding comprised three elements: (1) rejection of pre-existent matter, (2) absolute beginning, and (3) divine freedom. Neither rejection of eternal … Continue reading
Epistolary Adumbrations: Death, Life, and the Creatio ex Nihilo
by Brian C. Moore, Ph.D. The following post was originally two parts of what constituted a small dialogue between myself and a young woman who questioned certain aspects of David Bentley Hart’s arguments regarding the nature of freedom and the … Continue reading
Posted in Brian Moore
Tagged damnation, divine love, free will, God, human freedom, universal salvation, volition
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Julian of Norwich and the Revelation of Love
“This is a revelation of love that Jhesu Christ, our endless blisse, made in sixteen showings”—thus begins the divinely inspired reflections of Julian of Norwich on the visions she received on 13 May 1373. She was thirty years old. Julian … Continue reading
Posted in Julian of Norwich
Tagged divine love, God, Julian of Norwich, passion of Christ
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