Tag Archives: sin

Riding the Waves of Providence

Posted on 16 May 2017 by

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 →

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C. S. Lewis and the Fall: Must Death Always be Evil?

Posted on 25 April 2017 by

“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 →

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Is God the Author of Sin?

Posted on 10 January 2017 by

Is God the author of sin? The question assumes paramount importance when evaluating the construal of divine and human agency advanced by Hugh J. McCann. Popular theodicies seek to protect God from responsibility for human evil. That’s the upshot of … Continue reading →

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Hell as Universal Purgatory

Posted on 28 September 2016 by

“A human being cannot fail to love the Christ who is revealed in him, and he cannot fail to love himself revealed in Christ” (The Bride of the Lamb, p. 459). This striking statement represents, perhaps, the most provocative claim … Continue reading →

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“The resurrection is always beyond speech, and beyond touch, while death is always mute, tangible, and objective”

Posted on 19 January 2016 by

There, on the unseen transformation of nature into relation, we pin our hope of immortality. There, on love. The distinction of nature from person is not an intellectual definition. It is the experience of love: the revelation of the uniqueness … Continue reading →

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Juridical Purgatory and the Temporal Punishment of Sin

Posted on 5 October 2015 by

“The doctrine of purgatory,” writes Jerry Walls, “did not drop, fully formed, out of heaven, or hell, or for that matter out of somewhere in between” (Purgatory, p. 9). The history of the doctrine is complicated and cannot be rightly … Continue reading →

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Christos Yannaras: Asceticism as Repentance, Repentance as Failure

Posted on 20 January 2015 by

“For whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it” (Matt 16:25)—here is the heart of Orthodox Christian ethics, Christos Yannaras passionately avers. This may come as a surprise to … Continue reading →

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