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Ep. 108 David Bentley Hart responds to claims of heresy by Fr. James Dominic Rooney regarding the necessity of all being saved

Grace Saves All: Christianity and Universal Salvation

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Thomism - Is There a State of Separation From God?

Father Rooney is an eccentric Thomas because he tries to unite Thomas's clearly intellectualist model of freedom to a kind of libertarianism that Thomas most definitely did not teach, would not even have known how to teach in the 13th century. According to this teaching, none of us ever had any hope of doing anything other than committing mortal sin but for the entirely predilective and unpremised gift of efficacious grace. It's a purely predestined system in Thomas. The issue for, for Thomism is that we are born already damned. We are a masa,. dam nanda or masa, dam nata, to be honest, it's already a fed company. If

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