Apokatastenai: a purgative escape into heaven’s basement & not an elevator ride to hell’s limboic attic
Consider that there might be two modally distinct ways of knowing God, both supernatural; that we’re constitutively indwelled; that there’s no concrete natura pura & no natural felicity but, instead, an original beatitude from our transcendental orientation toward the Good.
Recruit (misappropriate w/me?) Maximus consistent w/the above:
“Thus they are restored to their original state [apokatastenai] through their knowledge [of God], but do not participate in [God’s] gifts”
~ Maximus discussing Nyssa in Questiones et dubia 13, PG 90, 796AC
Recruit Maritain’s apokatastenai consistent w/the above.
Untrammeled Approaches, University of Notre Dame Press, Jul 31, 2017, Ch 1: Beginning with a Reverie, pg 23
Bringing Lonergan, Maximus’ Nyssa & Maritain together in our single-storey Lubacian theohabitation, any talk of apokatastenai will logically converge on an eschatological harrowing of hell as a purgative escape into heaven’s basement & not an elevator ride to hell’s limboic attic.