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Fire Increate and the Salvation of Lilith
I scrambled to find the right words. How to explain to my old friend Frederica Mathewes-Green the theme of George MacDonald’s great fantasy novel Lilith? But the words would not come. Well, perhaps that’s not quite true. Words came, but … Continue reading
Posted in Inklings & Company
Tagged damnation, George MacDonald, hell, Lilith, purgatory, universal salvation
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Sin, Hell, and the Victory of Pascha
by Brian C. Moore, Ph.D. We are made for joy and love and creativity. We are embodied because the care of the soul requires human touch and beauty, music and vision in order to thrive. Yet we live in a … Continue reading
Posted in Brian Moore
Tagged apocatastasis, divine love, Easter, Edward Feser, eternal damnation, evil, hell, universal salvation
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Pascha and the Apokatastasis of Judas Iscariot
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
Posted in Bible, Eschatology, Preaching
Tagged apocatastasis, damnation, election, hell, Jesus Christ, Judas Iscariot, salvation, universal salvation, universalism
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Hell as Universal Purgatory
“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
The Judgement that Blesses and Curses
When the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate them one from another as … Continue reading
Creation as Chaconne
by Pastor Tom Belt Bach’s Chaconne for Violin is 12 to 15 minutes of—well, forgive me for putting it this way—the eucharist ingested through the ears, a divine liturgy of pure music. I have well over a dozen recordings by different … Continue reading
Posted in Eschatology, Theology
Tagged apocatastasis, David Hart, divine providence, free will, God, libertarian freedom, universal salvation
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Robert Buchanan and “The Ballad of Judas Iscariot”
By Addison Hodges Hart If there is a theme that is both central to Christian revelation and yet obscured by much that has for centuries passed for “sound” Christian theology, surely it is the idea—so evident in the teaching of … Continue reading
