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Tag Archives: universal salvation
Dwarfs for the Dwarfs: Can Aslan Pierce our Infernal Deafness?
If the greater hope is to be fulfilled, then it must be possible for those who die in a state of mortal sin—and thus outside of Christ Jesus—to repent of their sins and turn to God in faith. Yet how … Continue reading
Is Post-Mortem Repentance Possible for Mortal Sinners?
Roman Catholic theology has traditionally held that all who die in mortal sin are eternally condemned and beyond repentance. Thus the Catholic Catechism: “To die in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God’s merciful love means remaining separated from him … Continue reading
Preaching Good Good Very Good News: Proclamation, Liturgy, Kingdom
Preach the gospel in the performative mode of unconditional promise—let’s call this the proclamatory rule of the gospel. It comes into play when the gospel-speaker is declaring the good news of Jesus Christ to one or more individuals, with the … Continue reading
Preaching Good Good Very Good News: The Grammar of Apokatastasis
What difference does apokatastasis make to the churchly preaching of the gospel? All the difference in the world—and therefore all the difference to the world. How we understand the conclusion of the gospel story informs how we tell the story … Continue reading
Posted in Eschatology, Preaching, Robert Jenson
Tagged apocatastasis, eternal damnation, good news, gospel, hell, perdition, universal salvation
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Preaching Good Good Very Good News: St Isaac the Syrian and Universal Salvation
How do we proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ as good news that liberates and transforms? How do we tell the narrative of the Savior in such a way that the kingdom of God is made present? These are the … Continue reading
Posted in Eschatology, Isaac the Syrian, Preaching
Tagged apocatastasis, damnation, hel, Isaac the Syrian, universal salvation
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The Path Upward: Liturgy, Universalism, and George Seferis
by Christopher Howell Burning burning burning burning O Lord Thou pluckest me out O Lord Thou pluckest burning ~ T.S. Eliot ~ “When you asked me about hell the other day,” wrote Philip Sherrard in a 1966 letter to the … Continue reading
Posted in Eschatology, Liturgy & Sermons
Tagged Easter, Eastern Orthodoxy, eternal damnation, hades, hell, liturgy, Orthodox Church, Pascha, universal salvation
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St. Gregory of Nyssa–Teacher of Eternal Damnation?
by C. T. Cohen One reader of Eclectic Orthodoxy has brought up two passages from St. Gregory of Nyssa’s work De Infantibus Praemature Abreptis (On Infant’s Early Deaths). On the face of it, one of these two sections may suggest … Continue reading
Posted in Gregory of Nyssa
Tagged damnation, Gregory of Nyssa, Infants' Early Deaths, universal salvation
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Dogma, Damnation, and the Eucatastrophe of the Jesus Story
In both The Orthodox Church and “Dogma and Dogmatic Theology,” Sergius Bulgakov cites eschatology, among others, as a topic of theology open to dogmatic definition, the implication being that standard Orthodox teaching on the last things—including everlasting perdition—can only be … Continue reading
Posted in Eschatology, Theology
Tagged apocatastasis, damnation, dogma, Eastern Orthodoxy, eschatology, hell, Isaac the Syrian, Sergius Bulgakov, universal salvation
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