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The Meta-Historical Fall of the Cosmos: Intriguing but Is It True?

Posted on 6 March 2024 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Jesse Hake’s stimulating article “From Out of Another Kind of Time” has forced me to ask, “What do I really think about the hypothesis of a meta-historical Fall of humanity?” Not that I haven’t thought about the question before. It’s … Continue reading →

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A Human Fall From Out of Another Kind of Time

Posted on 3 March 2024 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Jesse Hake David Bentley Hart on the Meta-Historical Fall From time to time, over two decades, David Bentley Hart has advanced the idea of an atemporal or meta-historical fall of humanity (and other powers) within which our entire cosmos … Continue reading →

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The Fall of Humanity into Self-Exile From Paradise

Posted on 4 February 2024 by Fr Aidan Kimel

“Man was created to become a partaker in the personal mode of existence which is the life of God,” writes Christos Yannaras—“to become a partaker in the freedom of love which is true life.”1 But humanity does not experience life. … Continue reading →

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The Christ, the Fall, and Echoes of Eden

Posted on 27 November 2022 by Fr Aidan Kimel

It begins with the Fall and the introduc­tion of death and corrup­tion into the good world God has made. The ancient story is inscribed upon our hearts. Tempted by Satan, Adam and Eve partake of the forbidden fruit, plunge into … Continue reading →

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If Atonement Ain’t Penal, Why the Cross?

Posted on 13 April 2022 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Penal substitutionary atonement—whatever else might be said about this grotesque belief, it does provide a clear, simple-to-understand explanation of the events of Holy Week. On the cross the eternal Son endures the wrath of the Father for the sins of … Continue reading →

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Slowly Reading St Athanasius: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark

Posted on 16 June 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by John Stamps Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Something is also rotten with the Human Race. Something worse than Hamlet’s creepy uncle and lutefisk.1 This corruption stinks to high heaven. Far worse than malodorous lutefisk is the … Continue reading →

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The Ecumenical Stain of Original Sin

Posted on 5 June 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Do Orthodoxy and Catholicism significantly disagree on original sin? Both agree that by his sin and disobedience Adam broke fellowship with God and introduced into the world chaos, disharmony, corruption, evil, and death. But Orthodoxy dissents from Catholicism, we are … Continue reading →

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Flesh in the Devastation

Posted on 8 May 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

“Fleshly creatures in the LORD’s image and likeness”—Paul J. Griffiths proposes this formula as a provisional definition of human beings (Decreation, p. 157). One could easily write a series of books unpacking this definition. In this post and the next, … Continue reading →

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