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Basil the Great on the final state of the lost

C.330 – 379 · GREEK FATHER
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NO STANCE — AND WHY

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Searched in the sources read for this figure and not found. A limit of the reading rather than a claim about the figure — a source not yet read could settle it.

THE POSITION

Not reached. His discussion of eternal punishment sits in the ascetical Rules and the homilies, neither of which was read.

WHAT OTHERS HOLD HERE

Eternal conscious punishmentAQUINAS · JACOBUS ARMINIUS · ATHANASIUS · AUGUSTINE · VODDIE BAUCHAM · CALVIN · CHRYSOSTOM · JONATHAN EDWARDS · THE CHURCH OF ELEVEN22 STATEMENT OF FAITH · CHARLES GRANDISON FINNEY · BILLY GRAHAM · JOSH HOWERTON · TIM KELLER · SECOND LONDON BAPTIST CONFESSION · LUTHER · JOHN MACARTHUR · PHILIP MELANCHTHON · WILLIAM OF OCKHAM · JOHN OWEN · JUSTIN PETERS · JOHN PIPER · JOHN DUNS SCOTUS · R.C. SPROUL · WESTMINSTER CONFESSION · GEORGE WHITEFIELD · ZWINGLI
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ABOUT THIS FIGURE

Bishop of Caesarea and monastic legislator. Supplied the Trinitarian vocabulary the church still uses — one ousia, three hypostases — and argued the Spirit's deity in De Spiritu Sancto while deliberately never calling him God outright.

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