Syncretistic Catholicism

another minority report

Syncretistic Catholicism where any Anglican, Episcopal, Roman & Orthodox

consensus informs core beliefs & divergences are received as valid theological
opinions

Do you believe in heavenly freedom &

impeccability?
I was pleased when Pope Francis named Brother Simon Gaine, OP, a member
of the International Theological Commission, especially because
Gaine authored the book _Will There Be Free Will in Heaven? Freedom,
Impeccability and Beatitude_ (2003), wherein he expounded on Servais
Pinckaers’s “freedom for excellence.”
Gaines’s conception of freedom had prepared me to grasp & wholly embrace
David Bentley Hart’s model.

Nowadays, it’s extremely hard to navigate competing models of grace &

freedom.

In the same way that the distinctions between libertarian & compatibilist
models don’t even ask all the relevant questions, the Molinist & Báñezian
solutions don’t even address the concerns of today’s Neo-Báñezians.

I’ve given up trying to process these disputes. I can’t even figure out how to
map their concepts.

I’m no longer interested in which “school” one belongs or how one self-
describes. To cut to the chase, I just want to know:

Do you believe in heavenly freedom? impeccability? predestination?

In addition to the Pinckaers – Gaines – Hart model of freedom, I’m

sympathetic to Mats Wahlberg’s Thomist “autonomy” account as ordered
toward intimacy. For me, while it doesn’t block any inferences re universalism
(it’s no coherent defense of hell), arguably, it might supplement other logical
defenses to the problem of evil.

In the beatific vision, for me, our “freedom for excellence” would operate as
ordered to our universally realized primary beatitude, while our “autonomy for
intimacy” would be ordered toward our differentially realized secondary
beatitudes.
 John Sobert Sylvest May 16, 2023 Uncategorized

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