Another Clergy Con Artist Dead + Robert Farrar Capon + | Media Vita In Morte Sumus. WELS-LCMS-Episcopal UOJ

Father Capon won the Future Farmers of America
funny last-name contest.
The American Academy of Clergy gave him
a medal for combining it with "Father."

+ Robert Farrar Capon + | Media Vita In Morte Sumus:

“I am and I am not a universalist. I am one if you are talking about what God in Christ has done to save the world. The Lamb of God has not taken away the sins of some — of only the good, or the cooperative, or the select few who can manage to get their act together and die as perfect peaches. He has taken away the sins of the world — of every last being in it — and he has dropped them down the black hole of Jesus’ death. On the cross, he has shut up forever on the subject of guilt: ‘There is therefore now no condemnation. . . .’ All human beings, at all times and places, are home free whether they know it or not, feel it or not, believe it or not.

“But I am not a universalist if you are talking about what people may do about accepting that happy-go-lucky gift of God’s grace. I take with utter seriousness everything that Jesus had to say about hell, including the eternal torment that such a foolish non-acceptance of his already-given acceptance must entail. All theologians who hold Scripture to be the Word of God must inevitably include in their work a tractate on hell. But I will not — because Jesus did not — locate hell outside the realm of grace. Grace is forever sovereign, even in Jesus’ parables of judgment. No one is ever kicked out at the end of those parables who wasn’t included in at the beginning.

- + Robert Farrar Capon +

'via Blog this'

More at the link. Crenshaw can see through Capon - good insights on modern theology.

http://curtiscrenshaw.wordpress.com/2011/09/12/robert-farrar-capon-the-fingerprints-of-god-grand-rapids-wm-b-eerdmans-2000-paper-178-pages/

Robert Farrar Capon, The Fingerprints of God (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2000), paper, 178 pages)

September 12, 2011 by Curtis Crenshaw

(This is a book promoting universalism, that all will be saved; review by the Rev. Curtis I. Crenshaw, Th.D.)

While on vacation this past summer, someone suggested that I read this book. At first I did not recognize the author, but then it came back to me that he was a universalist, believing that all are saved, or perhaps only a few opt out. I decided to read it. I will spend more space interacting with the book than in my normal book reviews as this author has come up before. I will do this review in four parts: the author, his thought, his theology, and the implications of his thought.