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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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Julian of Norwich and the God who Delights to Die
“Sin is befitting, but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well” (Revelations LT 27). On reading these words of Christ to Julian of Norwich we might be tempted to think that … Continue reading
Posted in Julian of Norwich
Tagged atonement, Denys Turner, evil, God, Jesus Christ, love of God, sin, theodicy
Cross, Exsultet, and the Behoveliness of Sin
Dame Julian of Norwich presents us with antinomies which most of us (excepting hard-core Calvinists and traditional Thomists) would dismiss as metaphysical contradictions and moral nonsense: In his infinite power, God might have created a world in which all human … Continue reading
Posted in Julian of Norwich
Tagged divine sovereignty, evil, God, Julian of Norwich, original sin, providence, sin, theodicy
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The Nought of Sin and the Blindness of God
“Sinne is no dede,” Julian of Norwich calmly states (LT 11), yet who would be so insensitive and cruel to tell that to the families who lost loved ones in last week’s massacre in Sutherland Springs, Texas. When Devin Kelly … Continue reading
Posted in Julian of Norwich
Tagged being, Denys Turner, divine causality, divine providence, evil, God, good, privatio boni, privation, sin
The World is a Hazlenut We Must Nought
Of the sixteen showings received by Julian of Norwich on the 15th of May, 1373, the third immediately grabbed my theological attention: The third is that our Lord God, al mighty, all wisdom, and all love, right also verily as … Continue reading
Posted in Julian of Norwich
Tagged creation, creator, God, happiness, hazlenut, Julian of Norwich, nothing, sin
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Riding the Waves of Providence
Imagine a world in which you live not on a body of fixed land, whether continent or archipelago, but on a floating island that moves on the waves, driven by current, tide, and wind. One might describe the island as … Continue reading
Posted in Inklings & Company
Tagged Adam and Eve, C. S. Lewis, divine providence, Eden, free will, gluttony, Perelandra, sin
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C. S. Lewis and the Fall: Must Death Always be Evil?
“For God is life, and the privation of life is death,” writes St Basil the Great. “Therefore Adam prepared death for himself through his withdrawal from God, in accord with what is written, ‘Behold, those who remove themselves from you … Continue reading
Posted in Inklings & Company
Tagged angels, C. S. Lewis, death, evil, original sin, Satan, sin, the Fall
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