Reblog: Some Thoughts on Personhood, Hell, and the Hope for Universal Salvation

“We know that those trapped in the depths of their own hell are in that state as a result of the choices they have made, but that is not the whole story of the good news of the gospel. The good news is that they are the objects of a divine search, a search that does not end until the dead are … Continue reading →

”The Lord of hosts has recapitulated everything in himself and restores creation to its pristine state”

How agreeable a companion is the prophet David in all life’s ways! Not only has he wonderfully joined to it every spiritual stage of life but has included every type of advancement! He has played with those who infants according to God, struggled with men, instructed youths, supported those … Continue reading →

St Gregory of Nyssa: Theosis as Participation in God (part 3)

Deification through the Sacramental Mysteries For Gregory Nyssen, our deifying participation in the Holy Trinity is mediated concretely in the sacramental life of the Church. Our journey begins with our baptismal incorporation into the body of Christ and is sustained and nourished by … Continue reading →

”We are God’s dark mirror, icons of the imageless”

THE APOKATASTASIS by William Harmless Letter of Gregory of Nyssa to Ambrose of Milan, 387 AD Friend, I too had thirsted for flight: to rise at first light far from the hawking and market clatter, far from the press of litigants, Arian polemicists, and chameleon courtiers. I too had … Continue reading →

David Bentley Hart and Monistic Christology

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Eclectic Orthodoxy

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

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