Tag: Toll Houses
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On the Toll Houses Again: A Byzantinist’s Thoughts
by Eirini Afentoulidou David Bentley Hart’s recent article on the toll houses is very welcome in that the discussion has turned away from refuting the occasional “pro-toller” to a scholarly and detached examination of texts and contexts and the theological implications of their worldview. I do not intend to explain that the notion of the […]
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Nor Height Nor Depth: On the Toll Houses
by David Bentley Hart Among a great many Orthodox scholars in the academic world (especially when they gather together in hushed colloquy among the shadows and feel at liberty to speak strictly entre eux) it is often taken as depressing evidence of how radically the public intellectual culture of Orthodoxy in America has degenerated in […]
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Aerial Toll Houses, Provisional Judgment, and the Orthodox Faith
by Stephen J. Shoemaker | ελληνικά | ру́сский quod ubique, quod semper, quod ab omnibus creditum est –St. Vincent of Lérins (d. 445) The monks of St. Anthony’s Monastery have recently published a beautiful and intriguing, if also deeply problematic, volume on the fate of the soul after death. Weighing in (literally) at more than 1,000 pages, the […]