
Ep. 110 Jordan Daniel Wood reacts to issues raised during my interview with David Bentley Hart regarding James Dominic Rooney's concerns about Christian Universalism
Grace Saves All: Christianity and Universal Salvation
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Theosis Quotes - Is There a Necessity and Freedom or Absolute Contraries?
Rooney's rhetoric seems to depend on this idea that if if something is free it can't be known right with any kind of certainty and so I have a hard time thinking we can simply just be content with him. But he already admits that there is such a thing as epistemic certainty about a contingent outcome that's nevertheless an eschatological one namely Satan's eternal tradition. He doesn't see how you can hold against the universalist that it's automatically presumptuous to be certain about the salvation of all because that somehow contradicts the freedom of all when you've already conceded that very thing. Rooney might say as well that that's been revealed but the outcome itself wasn't predetermined right Satan
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