Eclectic Orthodoxy
Apokatastasis is but the gospel of Christ's absolute and unconditional love sung in an eschatological key
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The World is a Novel in the Mind of God
Can God determine our actions? One need not think more than a second or two. Of course he can. If CIA brainwashers and television advertising can cause us to act in specific ways, then the Creator of the universe certainly … Continue reading →
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Hope Springs Eternal
— The cypresses of Edenton Bay, in the azure and argent sky and water of October 23. Edenton, North Carolina. I’m writing this a few days before Election Day, although you’ll be reading it in print in the Chowan Herald … Continue reading →
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Appendix Ω: The Last Laugh
I’m working on a long essay on ecclesiology and eschatology, called, provisionally, “The Church that Forgot Her Future.” And I’m thinking of including, in the apparatus at the back, an appendix with jokes. I think one of the deficiencies of … Continue reading →
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Epilogue: We Want Proof; John Gives Us Witnesses (John 20:30-31)
By John Stamps Kierkegaard tells a little parable about a man walking down the street who spots a sign in a shop window: “Pants Pressed Here.” Delighted, he walks inside and begins removing his trousers. Imagine his embarrassment when he … Continue reading →
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From Mud to Glory: St Irenaeus and Deification
By the end of the first millennium, deification had become the principal way the Eastern Church would speak of God’s gift of salvation in Jesus Christ. The gospel promises many blessings—forgiveness of sins, deliverance from bondage, victory over death, baptism … Continue…
- Fr John Behr on Origen on the Psalms
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Thinking Trinity
Thinking Trinity: The Radical Homoousion by Fr Aidan “Fedora” Kimel Read on Substack
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A God-Sized Event: Thomas and the Revelation of the Crucified God (John 20:24-29)
By John Stamps In Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, the opera’s climax arrives when Count Almaviva, who has been trying to seduce Figaro’s bride, Susanna, discovers that the woman he thought he was seducing is actually his own wife in … Continue reading →
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Christine Kimel: The Quiet Mystic
My beautiful wife Christine is a quiet mystic. She would not describe herself that way, yet on occasion she has been given visions—a vision of Christ/Aslan after the loss of our daughter through miscarriage and a vision of angels during … Continue reading →
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What Remains Is Gift
Jonathan McCormack, David Bentley Hart, and Whether Anyone Remains Everything turns on a simple question: when we lose ourselves, in prayer or in love or finally in death, is anyone still there? If not, then love was only ever God … Continue reading →