Tag Archives: redemption

Reclaiming All Paul’s Rs: Apostolic Atonement by Way of Some Eastern Fathers

Posted on 12 March 2024 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Edith M. Humphrey, Ph.D. 1. Introduction During Lent, I am delighted to join in a liturgy ascribed to St. Basil of Caesarea, a Church father of the fourth century. At the Anaphora, we ‘lift up’ our hearts as the … Continue reading →

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God Creates the World from the Cross

Posted on 17 November 2022 by Fr Aidan Kimel

“Since he who saves already existed, it was necessary that he who would be saved should come into existence, that the One who saves should not exist in vain.”1 This quotation from the great second-century bishop and theologian St Irenaeus … 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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Reviewing Reardon on Redemption

Posted on 22 May 2018 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Tom Belt It’s always an honor to join in the conversation here at Fr Aidan’s place. It’s good of him to invite me in to share my thoughts on Fr Patrick Henry Reardon’s enlightening book Reclaiming the Atonement: An … Continue reading →

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