Tag: eschatology

No Repentance After Death: Facing Hard Questions about Salvation

· David Bradshaw
When one turns to the Church Fathers with these questions in mind, one thing that becomes apparent is that the Fathers did not find them pressing in the same way as we do today. Just as they took for granted that some will be eternally damned, so they assumed that there can be no repentance after death, at least of the thoroughgoing, ā€œdeepā€ kind that is essential to Christian life.

Making Peace with the Apocalypse: What Luther Taught Me About Living in the Light of Eternity

· Nicole Roccas
Editor’s Note: This article is part of an October 2017 series of posts on the Reformation and Protestantism written by O&H authors and guest writers marking the 500th anniversary of the nailing of Martin Luther’s 95 theses to the church door at Wittenberg on October 31, 1517. Articles are written by Orthodox Christians and discuss not just the Reformation as a historicalā€¦

Orthodox Theologies of the Afterlife: Review of “The Departure of the Soul”

· Paul Ladouceur
Editor’s Note: The following is a review of The Departure of the Soul According to the Teaching of the Orthodox Church, published April 2017 by St. Anthony’s Greek Orthodox Monastery, Florence, Arizona. It was sent to us by Dr. Paul Ladouceur originally as four separate posts, but we have combined them here into one, since they are closely related and also sinceā€¦