Джон’s Theologoumena: Another Minority Report

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In Heaven as it is On Earth - why our successful semantic references should chasten our aporetic sensibilities
One insight gifted us by a semantical - not ontological - univocity of being should be that, even without successful quidditative definitions of…
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If we are constitutively indwelled, then …
Formal-like causes may operate in the dynamics of grace (Stump), creation (Arraj), the divine matrix (Bracken) and beatific vision (Aquinas).
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How the Hypostatic Identity relates to the Analogical Interval in my search for a coherent Christology
A theological outlook that would aspire to collectively incoporate these stances:
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What provides the best resources for perfect knowledge of the new creation – a Christological or Participatory Monism?
Aquinas treats the new creation, and especially the incarnate Christ, as thoroughly theophanic.
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Our perfection will consist in – not satiety, but – the perpetual stability of our strainings toward & progressions in Love’s relative…
Without both of its poles (of generated opposites), wouldn’t the analogia devolve into the aequivocitas entis?
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Distinguishing a Universal Restoration from a Universal Beatific Vision
Below is a preliminary draft of notes which summarize the present consensus of our local (South Louisiana) Apokatasking Study Group.
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October 2024

A Catholic Eschatology – unlike many universalist & perditionist stances but somewhat like Maritain’s
Human persons are constitutively graced and mutually indwelled. We innately desire God’s presence in both mediated & immediate modes. Per our…
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Not Only the Theologian – Everybody uses metaphors within analogies to build cross-domain conceptual bridges
We’re often trying to explain effects as would seem to be proper to no known causes. We do this all the time in our quotidian existence as well as…
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When every freedom, nature & grace problem looks like a deterministic, pantheistic nail, change your metaphysical hammer
Relational ontologies can preserve simplicity, recognize analogy & avoid modal fallacies.
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The Art & Science of Improvisation – as seen by two boys from Happy Jack
In my lifetime’s study of formative spirituality, I’ve found that
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September 2024

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