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Will we be bored in heaven after an eternity? I was asked this question by a friend yesterday after Mass--she was passing the question on after having been asked it by her brother (if I am properly recalling). Can we be blissfully bored? Can the state of infinite happiness exist alongside of infinite boredom? My instinctive answer is no. In order to give a better, answer, it's worth recounting a story about Saint Thomas Aquinas. Here is a saint whose philosophical writings are so formid... Read More
Note: The following reflection is excerpted from a presentation which I will tentatively be giving for the next meeting of North Austin chapter of the Lay Dominicans. It is as a part of our ongoing book study, The Dominican Tradition; the chapter which we are currently reading is about Saint Thomas Aquinas. As always, I will eventually post the whole thing, though probably on the Ni... Read More
This post is meant as an answer to and open question sent my way, asked (rather publicly) by Miss Paige Alyson. She asks, "What happens to muslim people when they die.... because God says its either him or hell." To do full justice to this question would require far more than I will post tonight, but it is surely a good question to ask. What happens to Muslims--who believe in a single God, but not an Incarnate Savior (Jesus Christ is considered a prophet in their religion, unless I am mistake... Read More
An apparent contradiction is at play in apologetics and salvation theology; two claims are made which seem opposed to each other. The first is the claim of Pascal's Wager, a favorite argument of Professor Peter Kreeft's (among others) for why we ought to live like God exists. The second is the doctrine of Invincible Ignorance, which is often interpreted to mean that those who do not believe in God or His Church may still find themselves in heaven; this was certainly the view of C.S. Lewis (see T... Read More
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