Tag Archives: universal salvation

Preaching Good Good Very Good News: The Grammar of Apokatastasis

Posted on 23 September 2020 by

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 →

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Preaching Good Good Very Good News: St Isaac the Syrian and Universal Salvation

Posted on 16 September 2020 by

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 →

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The Path Upward: Liturgy, Universalism, and George Seferis

Posted on 25 August 2020 by

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 →

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St. Gregory of Nyssa–Teacher of Eternal Damnation?

Posted on 23 August 2020 by

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 →

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Dogma, Damnation, and the Eucatastrophe of the Jesus Story

Posted on 17 August 2020 by

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 →

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Orthodoxy, Dogma, and the Neuralgic Question of Doctrinal Development

Posted on 19 July 2020 by

The debate on apokatastasis inevitably raises the question: Has Orthodoxy definitively, infallibly, irreversibly, dogmatically rejected the universalist hope? Must Christians believe that some, perhaps many or even most, will—or as some prefer to say may—be eternally damned? Is it constitutive … Continue reading →

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Was St. Maximus Merely a Hopeful Universalist?

Posted on 30 June 2020 by

by Mark Chenoweth If St Maximus the Confessor read Jordan Daniel Woods’ essay on the differences between Hans Urs von Balthasar’s hopeful universalism and George MacDonald’s fully confident universalism, with which modern theologian would the saint find himself in agreement? … Continue reading →

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“Let Every Mortal Leap for Joy”: Apocatastatic Hymnody in Orthodox Worship

Posted on 17 June 2020 by

 by Brad (Reader Irenaeus) Jersak, Ph.D. “The primary means of theological education in the Orthodox Church is through worship.” ~ Archbishop (ret.) Lazar Puhalo Hymnody as Theology I began my decade-long journey toward Orthodoxy in 2003 under the tutelage of … Continue reading →

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