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Tag Archives: the Fall
The Vulnerability and Invulnerability of the Natal Flesh of God
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
Posted in Paul Griffiths
Tagged fallen human nature, flesh, incarnation, Jesus Christ, kenosis, Paul Griffiths, the Fall, unfallen human nature
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Eros and Flesh in the Devastation
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
Posted in Paul Griffiths
Tagged body, concupiscence, desire, eros, fallen human nature, flesh, love, Paul Griffiths, sex, the Fall
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Flesh in the Devastation
“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
Posted in Paul Griffiths
Tagged anthropology, body, flesh, human being, original sin, Paul Griffiths, the Fall, vegetarian, violence
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Thralls of the Metronome: The Fall of the Demons into Devastated Time
“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
Posted in Paul Griffiths
Tagged angels, demons, Lucifer, original sin, Paul Griffiths, Satan, the Fall, time
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Sergius Bulgakov on Evolution and the Fall: A Sophiological Solution
by Charles Andrew Gottshall 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, including … Continue reading
Posted in Sergius Bulgakov
Tagged cosmology, death, divine creation, evolution, original sin, sophia, the Fall
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C. S. Lewis and the Fall: Must Death Always be Evil?
“For God is life, and the privation of life is death,” writes St Basil the Great. “Therefore Adam prepared death for himself through his withdrawal from God, in accord with what is written, ‘Behold, those who remove themselves from you … Continue reading
Posted in Inklings & Company
Tagged angels, C. S. Lewis, death, evil, original sin, Satan, sin, the Fall
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Christos Yannaras: The Fall of Humanity into the Desperate Passion for Survival
“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” (The Freedom of Morality, p. 19). … Continue reading
Posted in Zizioulas & Yannaras
Tagged Adam and Eve, autonomy, Christos Yannaras, death, garden of eden, original sin, Sartre, the Fall
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