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Title: Eclectic Orthodoxy | Apokatastasis is but the gospel of Christ's absolute and unconditional love sung in an eschatological key
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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 simultaneously spontaneous and expressive of what one is. The child doesn’t stand before the bubbles calculating, analyzing, or del...
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. Trethowan was Augustinian in his theology and decidedly unsympathetic to Thomism. Given Robert Fortuin’s recent articles on theodicy in which he argues that the doctrine of c...
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 hel...
I scrambled to find the right words. How to explain to my old friend Frederica Mathewes-Green the theme of George MacDonald’s great fantasy novel Lilith? But the words would not come. Well, perhaps that’s not quite true. Words came, but they hardly made sense and certainly did n...
I have revised and published on Substack my series of articles on dogma and infallibility that I wrote a few years ago for Eclectic Orthodoxy. Perhaps readers might want to revisit them.