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Apokatastasis is but the gospel of Christ’s absolute and unconditional love sung in an eschatological key.

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From Mud to Glory: St Irenaeus and Deification afkimel.wordpress.com/2026/1…

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—forgivenes…

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The Eternal Circle of Love: Bonaventure on the Holy Trinity afkimel.wordpress.com/2026/1…

The Eternal Circle of Love: St Bonaventure on the Holy Trinity

“The mystery of the Trinity,” Isaac Goff observes, “saturates Bonaventure’s theological vision.”1 Bonaventure never wrote an independent philosophical treatise on the one God. His theology begins a…

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The Triune Good: From St Dionysius to St Bonaventure afkimel.wordpress.com/2026/0…

The Triune Good: From St Dionysius to St Bonaventure

When I concluded my original series on Dionysius the Areopagite back in 2018, I was left with a question: If God is the self-diffusive Good, what does this tell us about the eternal life of the Fat…

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There Is Plenty Enough to Go Around for All: John Steinbeck and the Betrayal of God’s Promised Land afkimel.wordpress.com/2026/0…

There Is Plenty Enough to Go Around for All: John Steinbeck and the Betrayal of God’s Promised Land

The Promised Land flows with milk and honey. The hungry still starve. Welcome to John Steinbeck’s California.

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Intermezzo—From the Other Side of Easter: Seeing Jesus As He Really Is afkimel.wordpress.com/2026/0…

Intermezzo—From the Other Side of Easter: Seeing Jesus As He Really Is

By John Stamps “This is what Jesus was really like; we did not realise it then, but now we know it.” (T. E. Pollard)1 This is the finest one-sentence description of the Gospel of John that I have e…

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Roberto De La Noval Takes on the Non-world afkimel.wordpress.com/2026/0…

Roberto De La Noval Takes on the Non-world

Dr Roberto De La Noval, who has contributed four articles to Eclectic Orthodoxy over the years, has recently published two journal articles which may be of interest to some of our readers. Both art…

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An ask: Could someone please download for me this Pro Ecclesia article by Thomas Macall. Email: [email protected]. TIA.
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Pelagianism Redivivus? No! A Response to Roberto J. De La Noval - Thomas H. McCall, 2025

This article responds to recent claims that the “free will theodicy” for hell either equals or entails the heresy of Pelagianism while also amounting to a denia...

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I don’t know why this question fascinates me, but it has ever since I read Dionysius’s The Divine Names: Does God freely choose to create the universe? Given divine transcendence, I believe this is a more difficult question than we think. afkimel.wordpress.com/2026/0…

Avicenna and Aquinas: Ruminating on Divine Freedom and Necessity

In 2022, I emailed Dr. Rahim Acar with several questions about the eleventh-century philosopher Avicenna’s understanding of divine freedom and creation. For purposes of publication, I have revised …

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I should add that Rob De La Noval has just published a scholarly piece that addresses in great depth the question of divine freedom in the theology of St Thomas Aquinas. It’s available for free download! tinyurl.com/4uu94ep3
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I need (like yesterday) the pdf of David Bradshaw’s article “Divine Freedom in the Greek Patristic Tradition”: doi.org/10.5840/qd201121/23. Please email it to me at [email protected]. Thank you very much!!!
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Puddleglum Faith: On Converts and Their Reasons afkimel.wordpress.com/2026/0…

Puddleglum Faith: On Converts and Their Reasons

Until a week or two ago, I had never heard of Ethan Muse. But suddenly my activity thread on Substack is getting bombarded by folks talking about him and his conversion to Christianity and Catholic…

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When Theology Becomes Hell afkimel.wordpress.com/2026/0… via @EOrthodoxy

When Theology Becomes Hell

— Photo credit: © Benjamincoppens | Dreamstime.com Job’s friends are often remembered as the people who came to comfort him and then made everything worse. That is true enough. But what makes them …

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Peace Behind Locked Doors: The Risen Christ and the Breath of New Creation (John 20:19–23) afkimel.wordpress.com/2026/0…

Peace Behind Locked Doors: The Risen Christ and the Breath of New Creation (John 20:19–23)

And on the eighth day, the Son of God made all things new. The darkness has passed away, and the light of the resurrection shines upon the world. The old creation still bears the scars of death, ye…

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Hart's Universalism and the Demands of Contingency afkimel.wordpress.com/2026/0…

Hart’s Universalism and the Demands of Contingency

Fr Kimel recently released When God becomes Jack Bauer, a characteristically generous and detailed defense of David Bentley Hart’s universalism against Mats Wahlberg’s greater-good theodicy of hell…

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Divine Freedom: Could God Have Not Created the Cosmos? afkimel.wordpress.com/2026/0…

Divine Freedom: Could God Have Not Created the Cosmos?

In 1948, Dom Illtyd Trethowan, a monk of Downside Abbey, published this dialogue between himself (Criticus) and a Thomist (Scholasticus) on the question of divine freedom and divine creation. Treth…

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Creation is God Playing afkimel.wordpress.com/2026/0…

Creation is God Playing

by Tom Belt If I were to try to express my understanding of God’s creative act, I’d use this picture. What play gives us that ordinary talk of “choice” doesn’t is an activity that can be simultaneo…

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“She is received with rejoicing and unspeakable delight in the house of God the Father, herself the house which God built for his Son, who dwelt in her without being circumscribed and was flesh from her by the Holy Spirit” afkimel.wordpress.com/2026/0… via @EOrthodoxy

“She is received with rejoicing and unspeakable delight in the house of God the Father, herself the...

How amazing, my brothers and sisters in the love of Christ! Today she who gave birth to the life of all people has moved on to be a sharer in that life. The life which was begotten before the ages …

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Heaven, Hell, Purgatory? Eschatological Notes Following the Theology of Peter Knauer afkimel.wordpress.com/2026/0…

Heaven, Hell, Purgatory? Eschatological Notes Following the Theology of Peter Knauer

by Fr. Robert Deinhammer, S.J. Our Savior Christ Jesus “has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, for which I was appointed a herald and an apostle and a tea…

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