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Tag Archives: free will
When Only Bad Arguments Are Possible: A Response to Diem (among others)
by David Bentley Hart In my last posting here, I confessed my bafflement at Edward Feser’s strange assertion that, when discussing the structure of rational freedom in That All Shall Be Saved, I do so in order to deny that … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, David B. Hart, Eschatology
Tagged culpability, David Hart, eternal damnation, free will, hell, That All Shall Be Saved
337 Comments
The Remarkable Unity of Rhetoric and Dialectic in ‘That All Shall Be Saved’
by Jordan Daniel Wood, Ph.D. I I had resolved to avoid, at all costs, making the substance of my reflection on David Hart’s That All Shall Be Saved about its rhetoric. Rhetoric features prominently among the main concerns of the … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, David B. Hart, Eschatology, Jordan Wood
Tagged damnation, David Hart, free will, freedom, God, hell, That All Shall Be Saved, universalism
44 Comments
But the Problem of Free Will
by David W. Opderbeck, Ph.D. As mentioned at the end of my previous post, David Bentley Hart’s argument in That All Shall Be Saved depends on a specific understanding of human freedom and the will. In response to the “free will” argument … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, David B. Hart
Tagged damnation, free will, gnomic will, hell, human freedom, Maximus the Confessor, universal salvation
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The Unpreachability of Predestination
When was the last time you heard a sermon preached on election and predestination? In thirty-plus years of priestly ministry I think I may have preached on it once. Christian pastors simply do not preach on it; and it doesn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Preaching, Theology
Tagged Arminianism, calvinism, election, free will, gospel, preaching, predestination, synergism
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The Possibility of a Thomistic Universalism: A Review of David Bentley Hart’s ‘That All Shall Be Saved’
by Taylor Nutter It seems prudent to begin this review of That All Shall Be Saved by following Hart in the confession of my own perspective. That perspective, after all, sets the conditions for the conclusions at which I will … Continue reading
Tom Talbott Reviews ‘That All Shall Be Saved’ (Part IV)
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
The Doxastic Problem: If you really, really believe in hell, you may already be in it
I have saved the best for last. Okay, that’s a tad inaccurate. I imagine that most readers of Sinners in the Presence of a Loving God will find the chapters devoted to the divine presence model of hell to be the … Continue reading
Divine Presence and the River of Fire
The title of Zachary Manis’s book Sinners in the Presence of a Loving God succinctly summarizes his constructive proposal. He calls it the divine presence model: “the eternal suffering of hell is not the result of any divine act that … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Eschatology
Tagged damnation, divine justice, final judgment, free will, God, hell, retribution, river of fire, Zach Manis
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