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Tag Archives: hell
Life After Death and the Demonic Gauntlet
If Protestants love to debate the relationship between justification and sanctification and Catholics the extent and limits of papal infallibility, the Orthodox love to debate … aerial toll-booths! “Aerial toll-houses? Never heard of them.” I know. Few outside of Orthodoxy … Continue reading
Posted in Eschatology
Tagged aerial toll-houses, divine judgment, eternal damnation, hell, intermediate state, life after death, Orthodoxy
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U-turns and Transcendentals
by Pastor Tom Belt I’m delighted to be back at Eclectic Orthodoxy – my home away from home. I’m always informed and challenged by the content and the company here. It’s like pulling a chair up to a warm hearth … Continue reading
Posted in David B. Hart, Eschatology
Tagged angels, Aquinas, David Hart, Ed Feser, eternal damnation, hell, Maximus the Confessor
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Suffering, Theodicy, and Apokatastasis
“What then, one might well ask, is divine providence?” David Bentley Hart poses this question after pondering upon the evil and suffering of the world in his beautiful little book The Doors of the Sea. In the preceding eighty-one pages Hart compares the … Continue reading
Posted in David B. Hart
Tagged apocatastasis, damnation, David Hart, evil, God, hell, Hugh McCann, providence, suffering, theodicy, universalism
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Fire Increate and the Salvation of Lilith
I scrambled to find the right words. How to explain to my old friend Frederica Mathewes-Green the theme of George MacDonald’s great fantasy novel Lilith? But the words would not come. Well, perhaps that’s not quite true. Words came, but … Continue reading
Posted in Inklings & Company
Tagged damnation, George MacDonald, hell, Lilith, purgatory, universal salvation
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Sin, Hell, and the Victory of Pascha
by Brian C. Moore, Ph.D. We are made for joy and love and creativity. We are embodied because the care of the soul requires human touch and beauty, music and vision in order to thrive. Yet we live in a … Continue reading
Posted in Brian Moore
Tagged apocatastasis, divine love, Easter, Edward Feser, eternal damnation, evil, hell, universal salvation
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Pascha and the Apokatastasis of Judas Iscariot
But what about the Iscariot‽ The fate of Judas is the challenge most often posed to anyone who dares to proclaim the greater hope. Christians have long debated whether few or many will be saved. St John Chrysostom appears to have been … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Eschatology, Preaching
Tagged apocatastasis, damnation, election, hell, Jesus Christ, Judas Iscariot, salvation, universal salvation, universalism
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Eternal damnation—it’s just so damn obvious, right?
I was not surprised by the response but still a tad disappointed. A couple of weeks ago I visited an online Thomist discussion group and proposed the following: Let’s do a thought experiment: Bracket for the moment your belief in … Continue reading
