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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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The Meaning of Protestant Theology

Posted on 12 August 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Phillip Cary, Ph.D. When Rodney Clapp, the editor to whom I pitched the idea of my new book, originally suggested the title The Meaning of Protestant Theology, I was a bit nonplussed. I knew the central concept of the … Continue reading →

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Salvation in Christ: The Orthodox Approach

Posted on 21 June 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Metropolitan Kallistos Ware Let me begin with a question that was put to me sometime ago in the railway train. A person sitting opposite fixed me with a piercing gaze and said, “Are you saved?” Now how did I … Continue reading →

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Pascha and the Apokatastasis of Judas Iscariot

Posted on 7 November 2016 by Fr Aidan Kimel

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 →

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Vicarious Faith, Tom Torrance, and a Few Memories

Posted on 11 October 2016 by Fr Aidan Kimel

It’s not often these days that Eclectic Orthodoxy gets noticed, but over at Reformissio, Jonathan Kleis mentioned me in his recent article “Athanasius, T. F. Torrance and the Vicarious Humanity of Christ,” and I would be remiss if I did not … Continue reading →

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Oecumenical Grace: The Protestant Gospel

Posted on 19 June 2014 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Compared to the previous chapters in The Theology of Grace and the Oecumenical Movement, the chapter devoted to the Protestant understanding of grace is too brief and to my mind unsatisfactory. In the ecumenical dialogue from which this book arose, … Continue reading →

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Ruminating Romans: Is faith a condition of salvation?

Posted on 10 August 2013 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Let us assume for the moment that the Pauline phrase pistis Christou is rightly translated “faith in Christ.” What then does it mean? What is its function within the theology of St Paul? In classical Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox exegesis, … Continue reading →

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