For those universalists who’d aspire to preserve Catholic distinctives & avoid formal doctrinal contradictions
For those universalists who’d aspire to preserve Catholic distinctives and, like Jordan Daniel Wood, avoid formal doctrinal contraditions, to me, it seems eminently reasonable to receive Justin Coyle’s opera carnis construction as a defensible disambiguation of references to metaphysical identity in the church’s eschatological doctrines.
After all, with such as Damascene’s operatic cipher, perhaps those doctrines could be developed even further in the universalist direction?
For those human acts, which involve sufficiently knowledgeable refusals to cooperate with grace, to the extent that some form of coercion has impaired one’s consent, there will be salvageable aspects, i.e. operated effects to be preserved.
When, however, with sufficient knowledge, we refuse to cooperate with grace and do so with a consent that’s not been appreciably impaired, there will be unsalvageable aspects, i.e. operated effects to be destroyed.
Some acts, let’s call them sheepish, would thus require purgative remedies, while others, let’s call them goatish, would invite utter destruction.
Different persons (operators) will transist post-mortem with self-determined secondary natures (operated effects) that will vary both in their degree of virtue (salvageable aspects of acts & dispositions) and degree of vice (unsalvageable aspects of acts & dispositions). All will thereafter proceed epektatically, as mercifully outfitted & graciously equipped, perhaps in unique ways & varying in degrees of intimacy.