Eclectic Orthodoxy

By John Stamps

We miss the point of St John’s accounts of the resurrection of Jesus if we do not taste his resurrected life. Jesus Christ does not just want to be with us. He wants to “in-home” himself within us.1 The ver...

By John Stamps

And on the eighth day, the Son of God made all things new. The darkness has passed away, and the light of the resurrection shines upon the world. The old creation still bears the scars of death, yet a new creation has dawned. The Sabbath rest has given way to a new beginning. The Father is working, and the Son continues his work.

The Div...

How amazing, my brothers and sisters in the love of Christ! Today she who gave birth to the life of all people has moved on to be a sharer in that life. The life which was begotten before the ages from the Father, which is God and the Word of God, which she bore in the flesh and nursed from her own breasts, the life that built all things from nothing and generated lif...

by Tom Belt

If I were to try to express my understanding of God’s creative act, I’d use this picture.

What play gives us that ordinary talk of “choice” doesn’t is an activity that can be simultaneously spontaneous and expressive of what one is. The child doesn’t stand before the bubbles calculating, analyzing, or del...

In 1948, Dom Illtyd Trethowan, a monk of Downside Abbey, published this dialogue between himself (Criticus) and a Thomist (Scholasticus) on the question of divine freedom and divine creation. Trethowan was Augustinian in his theology and decidedly unsympathetic to Thomism. Given Robert Fortuin’s recent articles on theodicy in which he argues that the doctrine of c...