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“The Spirit of the Grand Inquisitor” by Nikolai Berdyaev
This following article was written by the Russian Orthodox Philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev, soon after his friend Fr. Sergius Bulgakov received his first condemnation from the Moscow Patriarchate, on September 7th of 1935. It was published in the December issue of … Continue reading
Posted in Sergius Bulgakov
Tagged freedom, heresy, Moscow patriarchate, Nikolai Berdyaev, Orthodoxy, Sergius Bulgakov, Sergius Stragorodsky
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Riding the Waves of Providence
Imagine a world in which you live not on a body of fixed land, whether continent or archipelago, but on a floating island that moves on the waves, driven by current, tide, and wind. One might describe the island as … Continue reading
Posted in Inklings & Company
Tagged C. S. Lewis, evil, fasting, freedom, God, Perelandra, providence, Space trilogy, temptation
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Apprehending Apokastasis: Human Being is Absolute Desire for God
Finally and at long last, we arrive at David Bentley Hart’s fourth meditation in That All Shall Be Saved. This is my favorite chapter of the book. It certainly is the philosophically meatiest and most challenging, which is probably why … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, David B. Hart, Eschatology
Tagged creator, David Hart, desire for God, eternal damnation, freedom, hell, our hearts are restless, universal salvation
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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
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Theodicy, Hell, and David Bentley Hart
by Brian C. Moore, Ph.D. In his recent blog post “The Morality of Gehenna,” Father Lawrence Farley defends the compatibility of traditional notions of hell with the Goodness of the Christian God. His voice is certainly not inhumane. He recognizes … Continue reading
Posted in Brian Moore, David B. Hart, Eschatology
Tagged creatio ex nihilo, damnation, David Hart, freedom, God, hell, Lawrence Farley, universal salvation, universalism
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A Most Peculiar Story: The Freedom of God and Saints
by Brian C. Moore, Ph.D. Some have accused the Australian writer, Gerald Murnane, of a kind of autism. It may be that his method is little more than an idiosyncratic phenomenology, though I suspect there is something more. I cannot … Continue reading
Universal Salvation: What are the odds?
There are different kinds and degrees of hope. There is the hope that tomorrow will be a bright and sunny day, given that the weatherman says there’s only a 5% chance of rain. We might call this an almost-certain hope. There … Continue reading
Posted in Eschatology
Tagged apocatastasis, compatibilism, eric reitan, freedom, Kallistos Ware, libertarian freedom, universal salvation
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Ainulindalë: The Secret of the Secret Fire
You cannot pass. I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass. Gandalf’s confrontation … Continue reading
Posted in Inklings & Company
Tagged creatio ex nihilo, creation, essence and energies, freedom, God, Secret Fire, Silmarillion, Tolkien
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