Apokatastasis

The Nothing of Grace and the Apokatastasis of Justification by Faith

“Christ is a name for the way of life Jesus has realized.”
Dr. Christopher Green

The Druids and the Saints

“THE LORD IS NOT SLOW ABOUT HIS PROMISE, AS SOME THINK OF SLOWNESS, BUT IS PATIENT WITH YOU, NOT WANTING ANY TO PERISH, BUT ALL TO COME TO REPENTANCE.”
2 PETER 3:9

"Cast away from you that doctrine of devils, that Jesus died to save us from our Father."
- George MacDonald

THE VERY FIRE OF HELL IS THE FIRE OF LOVE.
BUT IT IS A LOVE THAT WILL BURN THE EVIL OUT OF YOU.
George MacDonald

"THESE THINGS SHOULD REMAIN HIDDEN AND NOT TO BE BROUGHT OUT INTO THE OPEN...BECAUSE IT IS HELPFUL TO KEEP THEM HIDDEN FROM THOSE WHO ARE STILL "INFANTS"
ACCORDING TO THE AGE OF THE SOUL AND STILL NEED THE FEAR OF TEACHERS...SO THAT THEY WILL NOT DISRESPECT THE GOODNESS OF GOD."

ORIGEN, HOMILY ON EZEKIEL

“You are in Christ.
You have always been in Christ.
You will always be in Christ.”

“THERE WAS A MAN SENT FROM GOD, WHOSE NAME WAS JOHN.
HE CAME AS A WITNESS TO TESTIFY TO THE LIGHT, SO THAT ALL MIGHT BELIEVE THROUGH HIM.
HE HIMSELF WAS NOT THE LIGHT, BUT HE CAME TO TESTIFY TO THE LIGHT. THE TRUE LIGHT, WHICH ENLIGHTENS EVERYONE, WAS COMING INTO THE WORLD.”
JOHN 1:6-9

“There is no room in God for retribution, for God is love, and there is no room in love for retribution. God is always just, but the justice of God is always restorative, never retributive. For God is love.”
Jeffery Doles

“THE TRUE CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION FOR THE HOPE OF UNIVERSAL SALVATION IS THE THEOLOGY OF THE CROSS, & THE REALISTIC CONSEQUENCE OF THE THEOLOGY OF THE CROSS CAN ONLY BE THE RESTORATION OF ALL THINGS!”
JÜRGEN MOLTMANN

The God Beyond God

The Radical Joy of Being: Why Settle for Less Than Everything?

Toll the Bell

Tradition and Freedom

"The basis of faith is the praxis of the poor man from Nazareth who shared his bread with the hungry, made the blind see, and lived and died for justice. Obedience to authority does not get us any further; praxís does."
- Dorothee Sölle, Thinking about God

The New Man

“SEE WHAT LOVE THE FATHER HAS GIVEN US, THAT WE SHOULD BE CALLED CHILDREN OF GOD; AND THAT IS WHAT WE ARE. THE REASON THE WORLD DOES NOT KNOW US IS THAT IT DID NOT KNOW HIM. BELOVED, WE ARE GOD'S CHILDREN NOW; WHAT WE WILL BE HAS NOT YET BEEN REVEALED. WHAT WE DO KNOW IS THIS: WHEN HE IS REVEALED, WE WILL BE LIKE HIM, FOR WE WILL SEE HIM AS HE IS.”
1 JOHN 3:1-2

Between Orthodoxy and Catholicism

“There is only Union.” 
Francois Du Toit

In 1977, Karl Rahner recalled in a lecture something he had written a decade earlier, that “the Christian of the future will be a mystic or will not be a Christian any more.” So writes Patricia Carroll, “By ‘mystic,’ he meant a person who has had a ‘genuine experience of God emerging from the very heart of our existence.”5 Carroll summarizes that what Rahner is doing here is “moving mysticism from the margins of Christian life to the centre[.]”6 And what that mysticism means, for Rahner, is a living knowledge of “God [as] the Holy Mystery who pervades the whole of reality, the incomprehensible ground of all being.”7 This living knowledge is voraciously, omnidirectionally intellectual; it is attuned to the mystical quality of the quotidian, finding that “everyday life, rather than explicit prayer or meditation, that leads us to the Mystery”; it is inherently ecumenical; and it sees that “Every human activity has a mystical dimension.”

La Chanson Des Étoiles

“In the liberation of all no one remains a captive! At the time of the Lord's passion the devil alone was injured by losing all the of the captives he was keeping.”
DIDYMUS THE BLIND
C. 310-398 AD

"Creation itself-not ritual or spaces constructed by human hands— was Francis' primary cathedral."
Richard Rohr


The Incarnation cannot be undone. If it could, it would be the undoing of our salvation, for the Cross and Resurrection would be of no benefit to anyone. Nor could it be undone for some without undoing it for all. It is all of one piece, just as humankind is, for we all partake of human being, the one and only way of being human.
When Christ the Word became "flesh" and dwelt among us (John 1:14), he did not merely put on human being as a suit, which could later be discarded when it served its purpose.
No, he became human being, and is so eternally. He defines what it means to be fully human - yet he did not cease to be fully divine.
Nor did Christ become merely a singular instance of human being. That, too, would have done us no good, for his actions would have been of benefit only to himself. But he became human in such a way that in his death all died, so that in his resurrection all might be raised.
In Romans 5:18, St. Paul compares/contrasts Adam and Christ. "Consequently, just as one trespass [Adam's] resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act [Christ's] resulted in justification and life for all people." Just as the connection between Adam and humankind was universal, such that Adam's disobedience resulted in condemnation for all, so also the connection between Jesus Christ and humankind is universal, such that Christ's obedience has resulted in justification and life for all.
Likewise, in 1 Corinthians 15:22, "For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive." Just as the connection between Adam and humankind was universal, such that in Adam all die, so also the connection between Jesus Christ and humankind is such that in him all will be made alive.
By the Incarnation, Christ is united, eternally and inextricably, with us all. For humankind, which was once headed up in Adam, is now headed up in Christ.

Dylano on Substack

THE FINAL SECRET, I THINK, IS THIS:
THAT THE WORDS
"YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD" BECOME IN THE END
LESS A COMMAND THAN A PROMISE.
—FREDERICK BUECHNER

"I HAVE SAID THESE THINGS TO YOU WHILE I AM STILL WITH YOU. BUT THE ADVOCATE, THE HOLY SPIRIT, WHOM THE FATHER WILL SEND IN MY NAME, WILL TEACH YOU EVERYTHING AND REMIND YOU OF ALL THAT I HAVE SAID TO YOU.”
JOHN 14:25-26

The Memory of Earth

“But thou art making me, I thank thee, sire.
What thou hast done and doest thou know'st well, And I will help thee: gently in thy fire I will lie burning; on thy potter's wheel I will whirl patient, though my brain should reel:
Thy grace shall be enough the grief to quell, And growing strength perfect through
weakness dire. “

George MacDonald

Calling In the Nemeton of the Magdalene: A Manifesto

Orthodoxy of the Heart

According to Abba Isaac of Nineveh, the blind seer whose teachings have fundamentally shaped Eastern Christian spirituality, the merciful heart is on fire for the whole of creation, for humanity, for the birds, for the animals, for demons, and for all that exists. By the recollection of them the eyes of a merciful person pour forth tears in abundance. By the strong and vehement mercy that grips such a person’s heart, and by such great compassion, the heart is humbled and one cannot bear to hear or to see any injury or slight sorrow in any in creation. For this reason, such a person offers up tearful prayer continually even for irrational beasts, for the enemies of the truth, and for those who harm her or him, that they be protected and receive mercy. And in like manner such a person prays [even] for the family of reptiles because of the great compassion that burns without measure in a heart that is in the likeness of God (from Homily 81 of the Ascetical Homilies of St Isaac the Syrian.)