
Dr. David Bentley Hart on That All Shall Be Saved - Session 3: Meditation 3
The Sacramentalists
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The Ontology of Personhood
In order to enter the bliss of the kingdom the connections don't disappear just because they become more emotionally tenuous who you are is still determined here. Our relation to others in fact constitutes us as the persons we are we are not self-subsistant essences and there's no such thing as a person in perfect isolation so if any person is in hell so too is some part of every person whose identity was shaped by his or her relation to that damn soul. In order to affirm the true beatitude of the save one must introduce partitions into that continuum and very amly arbitrary in order to define areas of morally and emotionally acceptable indifference.
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