
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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Is This Heresy?
I am not Roman Catholic. It does not matter to me and the issue really for the wider Christian world isn't whether you deem this to be heresy or not. The issue is whether or not the arguments made for one decide or the other are better. I think that it's clearly the case that the infernalist position has always been the one, not only does it have the weaker case to me, its case is infinitely weak. And we're supposed to believe that God is good and just and loving even though according to these traditional teachings, God does not extend that extraordinary efficacious grace to all creatures. In the Thomistic tradition, he merely provides a sufficient grace while withholding from each
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