RT Article
T1 Divine Energies: The Consuming Fire and the Beatific Vision
JF TheoLogica
VO 2
IS 2
SP 47
OP 59
A1 Holdier, A. G.
LA English
PB Presses Universitaires de Louvain, Université Catholique de Louvain
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1663060010
AB I argue that a comprehensive ontological assessment of the beatific vision suggests that an individual's experience of God's face is not merely dependent on a revelation of the divine energies, but that it requires a particular mode of reception on the part of the blessed individual grounded in the reality of their faith; lacking faith, what would otherwise be experienced as the blessed vision of God is instead received as a torturous punishment. Therefore, I contend that the beatific vision is one of two possible phenomena resultant from seeing God's face; the other is more commonly labeled "hellfire." Consequently, the often-assumed bifurcated landscape of the Afterlife (into a Heaven suffused with God's presence and a Hell deprived of it) must be reassessed.
K1 Divine Energy
K1 Eschatology
K1 Faith
K1 Heaven
K1 Hell
DO 10.14428/thl.v2i2.2233