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Tag Archives: hell
When Hell Becomes Dogma: The Closing of the Catholic Mind
My working principle: once eternal damnation is accepted by an ecclesial community as dogmatically binding, three things happen: Holy Scripture and the patristic tradition will be read through the dogma. Preaching and theological speculation will be governed by this dogma, … Continue reading
Universalism’s Convenientia
by Paul J. Griffiths Among the criteria that theologians use to determine what to say next and how to say it – to know how to go on in theology, that is – is appeal to convenientia.1 Fittingness, that is, … Continue reading
Is Post-Mortem Repentance Possible for Mortal Sinners?
Roman Catholic theology has traditionally held that all who die in mortal sin are eternally condemned and beyond repentance. Thus the Catholic Catechism: “To die in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God’s merciful love means remaining separated from him … Continue reading
Preaching Good Good Very Good News: The Grammar of Apokatastasis
What difference does apokatastasis make to the churchly preaching of the gospel? All the difference in the world—and therefore all the difference to the world. How we understand the conclusion of the gospel story informs how we tell the story … Continue reading
Posted in Eschatology, Preaching, Robert Jenson
Tagged apocatastasis, eternal damnation, good news, gospel, hell, perdition, universal salvation
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The Path Upward: Liturgy, Universalism, and George Seferis
by Christopher Howell Burning burning burning burning O Lord Thou pluckest me out O Lord Thou pluckest burning ~ T.S. Eliot ~ “When you asked me about hell the other day,” wrote Philip Sherrard in a 1966 letter to the … Continue reading
Posted in Eschatology, Liturgy & Sermons
Tagged Easter, Eastern Orthodoxy, eternal damnation, hades, hell, liturgy, Orthodox Church, Pascha, universal salvation
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Dogma, Damnation, and the Eucatastrophe of the Jesus Story
In both The Orthodox Church and “Dogma and Dogmatic Theology,” Sergius Bulgakov cites eschatology, among others, as a topic of theology open to dogmatic definition, the implication being that standard Orthodox teaching on the last things—including everlasting perdition—can only be … Continue reading
Posted in Eschatology, Theology
Tagged apocatastasis, damnation, dogma, Eastern Orthodoxy, eschatology, hell, Isaac the Syrian, Sergius Bulgakov, universal salvation
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When Only Bad Arguments Are Possible: A Response to Diem (among others)
by David Bentley Hart In my last posting here, I confessed my bafflement at Edward Feser’s strange assertion that, when discussing the structure of rational freedom in That All Shall Be Saved, I do so in order to deny that … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, David B. Hart, Eschatology
Tagged culpability, David Hart, eternal damnation, free will, hell, That All Shall Be Saved
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Was St. Maximus Merely a Hopeful Universalist?
by Mark Chenoweth If St Maximus the Confessor read Jordan Daniel Woods’ essay on the differences between Hans Urs von Balthasar’s hopeful universalism and George MacDonald’s fully confident universalism, with which modern theologian would the saint find himself in agreement? … Continue reading
Posted in Eschatology
Tagged apocatastasis, eternal damnation, Gregory of Nyssa, hell, Maximus the Confessor, universal salvation
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