Tag Archives: the Fall

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 Vulnerability and Invulnerability of the Natal Flesh of God

Posted on 20 May 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us (and we saw his glory, the glory as it were of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth. John 1:14 To fully understand human corporeality, we … Continue reading →

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Eros and Flesh in the Devastation

Posted on 12 May 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Human flesh, like all forms of flesh, is locatable in timespace. We can measure it, we can map it, we can clock its movements. The same may be said for material inanimate entities, yet an important difference remains. We inhabit … 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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Thralls of the Metronome: The Fall of the Demons into Devastated Time

Posted on 30 October 2018 by Fr Aidan Kimel

“The angels are first among creatures,” writes Paul Griffiths—“first, that is, in time, and first, also, in intimacy with the LORD. When the created order comes into being by the LORD’s fiat, the light that exists before the lights given … Continue reading →

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Sergius Bulgakov on Evolution and the Fall: A Sophiological Solution

Posted on 1 May 2017 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Charles Andrew Gottshall, Ph.D. Introduction As John Milbank perceptively pointed out in his paper “Sophiology and Theurgy,” the Russian sophiologists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were far ahead of the West in theologically responding to modernity, … Continue reading →

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