Monday, 29 June 2015

On The Unconditionality of Divine Love

Here are some links to a very well written set of articles by Fr Aidan Kimel on the Eclectic Orthodoxy blog (make sure to also read the comments section of each post):

Hell (Unfortunately)?
https://afkimel.wordpress.com/2015/06/16/hell-unfortunately/

Universalism and the Deluge of Condemnation
https://afkimel.wordpress.com/2015/06/18/universalism-and-the-deluge-of-condemnation/

The Gospel of Deluge
https://afkimel.wordpress.com/2015/06/21/the-gospel-of-deluge/

Debating Universalism: The Need to Do One’s Homework
https://afkimel.wordpress.com/2015/06/23/debating-universalism-the-need-to-do-ones-homework/

Orthodoxy and the Damnation of the Damned
https://afkimel.wordpress.com/2015/06/25/orthodoxy-and-the-damnation-of-the-damned-2/

The Unconditionality of Divine Love and the Universalist Hope
https://afkimel.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/the-unconditionality-of-divine-love-and-the-universalist-hope/

Highly recommended is the most recent post "The Unconditionality of Divine Love and the Universalist Hope" which is also reblogged below:

Monday, 8 June 2015

Lex Orandi and the Test of all Dogma

"The liturgical and sacramental life of a Church is the authentic expression of the faith, or the mind and of the spiritual experience of her clergy and people. On the other hand the liturgy stamps its imprint on the consciousness of the worshipping community, as a channel of grace. All dogmas are ultimately tested in the life of the Church against the basic tradition on the one hand, and against the experience of the age on the other."

+ H.H. Karekin I, "Problems of Consensus in Christology: The Function of Councils" in Christ in East and West, ed. by Paul R. Fries and Tiran Nersoyan (Mercer University Press, 1987), 49-64.