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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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What Does God Know and When Did He Know It?
To be God is to know … everything. He is the Creator who brings beings into being from out of non-being. If something, anything, exists, God knows it; and he knows it completely, exhaustively, immediately. He knows the world from … Continue reading
Posted in Hugh McCann, Philosophical Theology
Tagged eternity, God, Hugh McCann, omniscience, Richard Swinburne, time
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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
But the Problem of “Infernalism”
by David W. Opderbeck, Ph.D. As I noted in my first post, David Hart’s moral objection to what he calls “infernalism” is important but raises questions about the nature of epistemic and theological authority. In this post, I’ll highlight what … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, David B. Hart
Tagged Aquinas, damnation, David Hart, God, hell, justice, retribution
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Why is Presdestination Missing in Action?
Something is wrong with traditional formulations of the doctrine of divine predestination. For over fifteen hundred years, the theologians of the Church—Origen, St Augustine of Hippo, St John of Damascus, St Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin, Luis de Molina, Domingo Báñez, … Continue reading
Posted in Preaching, Theology
Tagged Augustine, election, God, grace, gratitude, Pelagianism, predestination, thanksgiving
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The Irresistible Truth of Final Judgment
And he shall come again with glory to judge both the quick and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end. The Great Assize—I am brought into the courtroom of the Divine Judge. The prosecutor presents a movie of my … Continue reading
Posted in Eschatology, Sergius Bulgakov
Tagged apocatastasis, final judgment, God, Jesus Christ, parousia, second coming, Sergius Bulgakov, universal salvation
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Divine Simplicity: Into the Negative Zone
by David Mahfood, Ph.D. Introduction A clear set of premises leading to a conclusion is a remarkable intellectual gift, for then one’s options are clear: accept the conclusion, reject one or more premises, or find a fallacy in the way … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophical Theology
Tagged divine creation, divine freedom, divine simplicity, Ed Feser, God, modal collapse, Ryan Mullins
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