Tag Archives: grace

Natura Pura in the One-Storey Universe

Posted on 9 May 2022 by Fr Aidan Kimel

I continue with theological highlights of David Hart’s essay “Waking the Gods,” included in his new book You Are Gods. If you have not yet read my article “The One-Storey Universe of David Bentley Hart,” you may find it helpful to … Continue reading →

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The One-Storey Universe of David Bentley Hart

Posted on 3 May 2022 by Fr Aidan Kimel

David Hart’s critique of two-tier Thomism can be misleading. If we are acquainted with the ongoing debate swirling around natura pura and the desiderium naturale, we will be tempted to judge his arguments according to scholastic criteria and categories. This is … Continue reading →

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The Caponian Vision of (Almost) Apokatastasis

Posted on 17 March 2022 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Having completed my series on the parables of Jesus as interpreted by Robert Farrar Capon, I’d like to bring into the discussion his soteriological reflections as presented in his books The Mystery of Christ, published in 1993, and Between Noon … Continue reading →

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Why is Presdestination Missing in Action?

Posted on 30 September 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

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 →

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The Grand Question: Hooker, Newman, and the Council of Trent

Posted on 2 September 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

The justification of sinners—this is “the grand question which hangeth yet in controversy between us and the Church of Rome.” Thus declared the great Anglican Divine Richard Hooker. Hooker notes that Anglicans and Catholics agree on many points about justification. … Continue reading →

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Luther, Catholicism, and Justification by Faith

Posted on 21 August 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

In his book The Spirit and Forms of Protestantism, the great Catholic scholar Louis Bouyer, himself a convert from Lutheranism, describes Martin Luther’s understanding of justifying faith: Salvation is a grace, a gift of God, not the work of man. … Continue reading →

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Judas Iscariot: Apostle to the Reprobate

Posted on 25 October 2016 by Fr Aidan Kimel

In these days he went out to the mountain to pray; and all night he continued in prayer to God. And when it was day, he called his disciples, and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles; Simon, whom … Continue reading →

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The Five Ways and Deification

Posted on 17 October 2016 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by David Russell Mosley, Ph.D. Fr. Kimel has been hounding me for sometime (OK, maybe that’s not quite correct) to write a post for him here at Eclectic Orthodoxy. Sadly, all of my best ideas were going to my own … Continue reading →

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