Tag Archives: freedom

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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C. S. Lewis, Alvin Plantinga, and the Free-Will Defense

Posted on 5 October 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Why did God create a world filled with evil and horrific violence? In the midst of World War II, C. S. Lewis offered what has become a classic Christian response: God created things which had free will. That means creatures which … Continue reading →

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“The Spirit of the Grand Inquisitor” by Nikolai Berdyaev

Posted on 20 August 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

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 →

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Riding the Waves of Providence

Posted on 14 May 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

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 →

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Apprehending Apokastasis: Human Being is Absolute Desire for God

Posted on 6 March 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

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 →

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The Remarkable Unity of Rhetoric and Dialectic in ‘That All Shall Be Saved’

Posted on 23 February 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

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 →

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Theodicy, Hell, and David Bentley Hart

Posted on 15 November 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

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 →

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A Most Peculiar Story: The Freedom of God and Saints

Posted on 15 October 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

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 →

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