Tag Archives: freedom

Riding the Waves of Providence

Posted on 14 May 2020 by

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

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

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

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

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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Universal Salvation: What are the odds?

Posted on 4 March 2019 by

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 →

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Ainulindalë: The Secret of the Secret Fire

Posted on 19 February 2018 by

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 →

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