Sitemap - 2023 - Джон’s Theologoumena: Another Minority Report

Contra Fundamentalistic Knee-Jerks – there aren’t heretical pantheists behind every monistic tree

Beyond Participation, Consider Perichoreses, Prosopa, Archai & Equiprimordial Societies & Persons

Locating Christological Asymmetries & Symmetries

My Response to Forging Ploughshares | Jordan Wood on the Logic of Person Versus Hart’s Grounding in Logical Abstraction

Neochalcedonism - contra caricatures

Stitching Together Various Theo-anthropo Threads

Dear Universalists: What on earth are we doing “here”?

Possible World & Free Choice Counterfactuals of Universalism – the lack thereof

Grace, Predestination, the Permission of Sin & the Intention of Ontic Novelties – a universalist approach

A Defense of Double Agency – with a Goldilocks account of divine sovereignty

For the Greater Glory of God

A Free Will Defense of Hell (doesn’t work)

How & Why Jenson’s Right About What God Feels

The Norms of Mysterian Appeals: Phantasms Resignified (universalism) or Reinforced (perditionism)?

Essences don't enhypostasize. They are enhypostasized. Hypostases are enessenced by persons.

We should critically adapt our ontologies to doctrine & not vice versa

If Universalism is true, then why weren’t all gifted the beatific vision from the cosmic get-go?

A Sophiology of Ignorance – why essential logics must entail concrete personal acts

Every false incarnation shall be dehypostasized

Beyond the Sophianic to the Neo-Chalcedonian – actually, it’s good

Human persons can be divinized in a perfectly symmetric way to how Christ self-determined to be humanized

A Field Guide to the Christs & Spirits – the semantics of Divine Presences

All Persons are Constituted by Both Acts & Relations, Subjectively & Intersubjectively, Quidditatively & Expressively

A Field Guide to the Christs

A Universalist Appropriation of Franciscan Justification, Sanctification & Glorification

Grace Refers to Persons as they intersubjectively communicate in various ways & to different extents

Recruiting Norris Clarke for My Cosmotheandric Universalism

Lookin’ for hell in all the wrong places! Lookin’ for hell in too many faces!

Nature, Grace & Universalism

If certain Thomists & David Bentley Hart are Right (and they are), then …

The Apathetic Báñezian, Pathetic Calvinist, Sympathetic Lubacian & Empathetic Maritainian Patterns of Divine Interactivity

The Franciscan Arguments Against Natura Pura – the primacy of Christ & illuminationism

Responses to Fr Rooney’s Church Life Journal Series on Indicative Universalism

a storyboard regarding the “hows” of apokatastenai

Toward a more Eschatologically Enhanced Apokatastenai – new & improved: affectively sweetened & beatitudinally enriched

The Full Maximian Apokatastases Monty: immortality, theotic realization & apokatastenai

Parallels between Logical & Evidential Problems of Evil & of Hell

About our Divine Indwelling & the Beatific Vision

Why Beatific Contingency is an Oxymoron

Death! Where is Thy Victory? Thy Sting? Thy Origin?

Re-situating Zizioulas (& Maximus) in Idioms that are more amenable

impeccable impassibility, peccable impassibility, impeccable passibility & peccable passibility?

The Coherencies of Indicative Universalism – the universalist weseeum inference

My Weak Argument for an Indicative Universalist Eschatology

ChalceDONE - redux

Our Search for a Continuity of Meaning between our historical, protological & eschatological well beings

An Indicative Universal Sanctification & Subjunctive Universal Intimacization

The Compatibilist Freedom of Apocatastasis & Libertarian Autonomy of Epectasy

Permission, Predestination, Peccability, Preterition, Predilection, Purgatory & ‘Pocatastasis

Entropy & Eschatology

It’s not heaven vs hell that needs to be at stake vis a vis the problem of evil but abundance vs superabundance

Toward a Theoanthropology of Our Intuitive – Operative Knowledges of both Mediated & Immediate Divine Presences

The Power of Love

The Greatest Freedom of All will be to never again avert our gaze

Do you believe in heavenly freedom & impeccability?

Another (Peircean) Musing about The Whole Mystery of Christ: Creation as Incarnation in Maximus Confessorby Jordan Daniel Wood

It’s Time to Cut Bulgakov, Hegel & Others Some Serious Slack

Preachers, Performatives & Pragmatists

A Roundup of Sources Comparing Bavinck’s ‘nature & grace’ and de Lubac’s ‘nouvelle théologie’

I believe it is impossible for anyone to go to hell because …

The Cosmotheandric Perichoresis

The Immaculate Conception

To Whom Does Nature Order Us & How Does Grace Equip Us?

The Guarantee of the Beatific Vision & Incoherence of Beatific Contingencies

Competing universalist accounts of providence, grace & nature are truly theoLetItGomenal

Evil Shall Never Become the Worst – universalism & efficacious grace

A Defense of Grace, Predestination, and the Permission of Venial Sin

Why Kronen & Reitan’s Argument from Divine Benevolence Works for Me

A Universalist Meditation & Prayer

Reflections on Efficacious Grace

Our Affective Conversions & Identities – Life’s Late Loves

Eros & Embodiment, Sex & Gender: Offering a Theo-Anthropo Heuristic & Proper Conception of Magisterial Hierarchy

Heaven is Our Eternal – Temporal Universal Co-Dwelling (not a future contingency)

The Degree of Epistemic (Dis)Parity Between Majority & Minority Eschatologies

How I (mis?)Read DBH & JDW

The God of the Possible or WWJD

The Coherence of Universalism – part infinitum

Infernalism's Faustian Bargain

The Coherence of Universalism

Theophanic Turtles all the way down & Christogonic Rabbits all the way across

What I Like about Roman Catholicism's Libertarian, Compatibilist, Annihilationist, Limboic & Subjunctive Infernalisms!

What I Like about Roman Catholicism's Libertarian, Compatibilist, Annihilationist, Limboic & Subjunctive Infernalisms Is ... (see note, below) … that each contains one or more theo-anthropological

Why Logical Defenses to the Problem of Evil Work but to the Problem of Hell Do NOT Work

You're [NOT] Damned If You Do & [NOT] Damned If You Don't

What if YOU were one of us? ~ asks the Trinity

I wish that I knew what I know now When I was younger

Hello, Thou! How am I doing?

Post-Christian Realities – nihilism, practically speaking

A Defense of Compatibilist Freedom: When Grandchildren Are Around

Deus caritas est

Laying Claim to Humanity's Divinity

Meet Ren Gill & Get to Know Yourself Better

Why Skeptical Theism needn't undermine our sense of moral obligations

Love & Knowledge in Scotus - David Bentley Hart

Fr Kimel's _Destined for Joy: The Gospel of Universal Salvation_

In Search of a Coherent Thomism

TheoAnthropology per the Woodsian Entitative, Scotistic Hylomorphic & Maximian Modal Ontological Heuristics

Making Sense of the Intermediate State

It's time we start calling Infernalism by its real name

In Defense of Heavenly Hierarchies

Is Reconciling the Impassibility Impasse between the Young Turks & Old Sophiologists Simply Impossible or Simplicity, itself?

My Journey to a Dogmatic Universalism

A Defense of Dogmatic Universalism

Each Person's Beatific Capacity Remains Inviolable

Thomism works well enough with a Dogmatic Universalism

discerning whether or not & how to extend pastoral accommodations

Dogmatic Universalism - it's easy to count the ways that misplaced concerns arise

The Totus Christus vis a vis Eternal Damnation

Rambling Thoughts About a Conscious Afterlife

What Theo-Interlocutors really need for fruitful discussions of Universalism

Regarding references to our human divinity

God's moral character has been sufficiently revealed

An Ecumenical Universalism is Systematically Viable

an irreducibly triadic anthropo-heuristic