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Tag Archives: human freedom
Rowboating with God: The Mystery of Synergism
Several years ago I telephoned a well-known Orthodox theologian and asked him to elaborate on the doctrine of synergism. He pointed me to the words of the Apocalypse of John: “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophical Theology
Tagged Austin Farrer, causal joint, cooperation, divine agency, God, human freedom, Kallistos Ware, synergism
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Apprehending Apokatastasis: The Necessary Choosing of the Good
Every human being is divinely ordered to God under the aspects of the transcendentals of being—the Truth, the Good, and the Beautiful. We hunger and thirst for union with him, for only in him can we enjoy supreme and overflowing … Continue reading
A Self-effacing Gardener: The Unity of God’s Activity in Nature and Grace in the Theology of Austin Farrer
by Jeffrey A. Vogel, Ph.D. Introduction At the end of Faith and Speculation, his last major work, Austin Farrer writes the following: “Our thesis is no more than that the relation of created act to creative Act is inevitably indefinable, … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophical Theology
Tagged Austin Farrer, cosmology, divine action, divine providence, double agency, evolution, God, human freedom
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But the Problem of Free Will
by David W. Opderbeck, Ph.D. As mentioned at the end of my previous post, David Bentley Hart’s argument in That All Shall Be Saved depends on a specific understanding of human freedom and the will. In response to the “free will” argument … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, David B. Hart
Tagged damnation, free will, gnomic will, hell, human freedom, Maximus the Confessor, universal salvation
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The Possibility of a Thomistic Universalism: A Review of David Bentley Hart’s ‘That All Shall Be Saved’
by Taylor Nutter It seems prudent to begin this review of That All Shall Be Saved by following Hart in the confession of my own perspective. That perspective, after all, sets the conditions for the conclusions at which I will … Continue reading
Dionysian Ponderings: The Parhypostatic Nullity of Evil
Ecstatic movement from the Good and Beautiful into the multiplicity of the good and beautiful, succeeded by joyful return to the Good and Beautiful. From God, in God, through God, to God. Abiding, procession, reversion; diffusion, illumination, union. Creation and … Continue reading
Posted in Dionysius the Areopagite
Tagged evil, God, human freedom, parhypostasis, privation, Pseudo-Dionysius, sin, theodicy
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Epistolary Adumbrations: Death, Life, and the Creatio ex Nihilo
by Brian C. Moore, Ph.D. The following post was originally two parts of what constituted a small dialogue between myself and a young woman who questioned certain aspects of David Bentley Hart’s arguments regarding the nature of freedom and the … Continue reading
Posted in Brian Moore
Tagged damnation, divine love, free will, God, human freedom, universal salvation, volition
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St John of Damascus on the Providence of God
“God is both Creator and Provider,” writes St John of Damascus, “and is power of creating, sustaining, and providing is his good will. For ‘whatsoever the Lord pleased he hath done, in heaven, and in earth’ [Ps 134:6], and none … Continue reading
Posted in Theology
Tagged evil, free will, God, human freedom, John of Damascus, Nemesius, providence, synergism
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