Category Archives: Faith and Hope

Law, Gospel and eternal destiny

Posted on 22 April 2009 by

To expand a little on the last paragraph of my previous post, John Robinson’s distinction between what is “the truth from the perspective of the persons facing the decisions with which the gospel confronts them” and “the truth as it … Continue reading →

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Dare we hope?

Posted on 14 September 2007 by

From the Amazon.com reviews of Hans Urs von Balthasar’s book Dare We Hope “That All Men Be Saved”?: Critics have unfairly suggested that Fr. von Balthasar is either denying the existence of a literal hell, or denying that anyone is/has … Continue reading →

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Praying for universal salvation

Posted on 2 September 2007 by

An interesting argument from Robert Short’s “Bible According to Peanuts”. Jesus tells us (Matthew 7:9-11): Is there anyone among you who, if your child asks for bread, will give a stone? Or if the child asks for a fish, will … Continue reading →

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CPA: “faith does not debate universalism”

Posted on 1 September 2007 by

[F]aith does not debate universalism, certainly not in terms of ghostly colonialist abstractions like “the native in Africa” or some grotesque scholastic definition of theodicy. Instead, faith prays, and argues, and laments, for the souls whom God has placed in … Continue reading →

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