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Monthly Archives: July 2016
“But to know that God was good, and fair, and kind … there would be nothing left to be miserable about”
‘Do you think, Mr. Ericson,’ he said, at length, taking up the old question still floating unanswered in his mind, ‘do you think if a devil was to repent God would forgive him?’ Ericson turned and looked at him. Their … Continue reading
The Prelapsarian Christ
When the Word became flesh, he assumed, not human nature as originally constituted in Edenic innocence, but human nature as marked by sin and the curse of death—thus declare many modern theologians. The controlling images, at least for Kallistos Ware, … Continue reading
Parousia as Fulfillment of Pentecost
Just as we may speak of the eternal Son emptying himself of his glory in the Incarnation, hiding himself, as it were, in the flesh of the man Jesus, so we may speak of an analogous movement of the Holy … Continue reading
Posted in Sergius Bulgakov
Tagged apocalypse, eschatology, Holy Spirit, new creation, parousia, Pentecost, return of Christ, Sergius Bulgakov
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“To trust in spite of the look of being forsaken …”
To trust in spite of the look of being forsaken; to keep crying out into the vast, whence comes no returning voice, and where seems no hearing; to see the machinery of the world pauselessly grinding on as if self-moved, … Continue reading
The Parousia of the Incarnate Son
The return of the Incarnate Christ in glory inaugurates the apocalyptic transfiguration of the universe. This “return” does not imply that our Lord ceased to be present to the world after his exaltation. The words of Jesus stand: I am … Continue reading
Posted in Eschatology, Sergius Bulgakov
Tagged apocalypse, eschatology, Jesus Christ, parousia, Sergius Bulgakov
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Division of Being in St Gregory of Nyssa’s Contra Eunomium
by Robert F. Fortuin The ultimate division of all that exists is made by the line between ‘created’ and ‘uncreated,’ the one being regarded as a cause of what has come into being, the other as coming into being thereby. … Continue reading
Posted in Gregory of Nyssa, Robert Fortuin
Tagged creator, creature, divine being, divine infinity, divine simplicity, God, Gregory of Nyssa, Holy Trinity
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