My Universalist Account

It's a Wrap

As images of God, we mirror the divine essence & economy.

Essentially, we were made to experience & express divine love. Our primary beatitude & disposition are wholly determined by God, Who gifts our primary nature per divine logoi.

Economically, per our unique tropoi, cooperating with grace, ordinarily, we each self-determine our secondary nature or how we will express divine love & experience various secondary beatitudes.

We are made to infinitely & cooperatively grow both the heights of sanctity in our expressions & the depths of intimacy in our experiences of divine love.

Extraordinarily, per divine election, God will determine, to a much greater extent (more operatively & less co-operatively), certain persons' degrees of sanctity & intimacy. God will then infuse such graces as will grow their virtuous & extinguish their vicious natures. We've all encountered such saints in our lives & have marveled in the presence of such holiness.

Gratuitous infusions of such graces, as are most willingly received as consistent with our natural inclinations, are in no way repugnant to our free will. They thus operate, for example, like the graces of justification in this life or those of impeccability in the next. Compatibilist determinations & libertarian self-determinations can variously play significant roles in our lives - never, in the least, placing our wills in competition with God's.

Now, certainly, a question begs regarding how we all too often self-determinedly grow our vicious secondary natures, which can then mask our expressions & diminish our experiences of divine love?

This possibility remains unavoidable in any divine economy ordered toward a free & infinite growth in sanctity & intimacy, beyond the primary beatitude of the beatific vision (the same communal enjoyment experienced within the Trinity!) to include, also, expansions of the secondary beatitudes of our finite creatureliness.

The only logic consistent with the divine logic explicated above would be that of purgative, restorative graces, bestowed universally &, naturally, received freely by all. The primary nature & beatitude of each imago Dei can never be obliterated, only masked by a parasitic, subcontrary reality or vicious secondary nature, which can, so will, be operatively purged by God.

All shall be saved.

Not all need attain the same degrees of sanctity & intimacy. Some may grow forever higher & deeper. All may. None must. Some should, so have been elected.

And, after several decades of pondering these things in my heart, lately, this feels like a wrap. Thanks to all who have gifted me insights & accountability.

That’s what I’ve proposed herein

A Neo-Chalcedonian, Cosmotheandric Universalism