Jordan Daniel Wood’s The Whole Mystery of Christ: Creation as Incarnation in Maximus Confessor (Notre Dame, 2022) provocatively re-reads Maximus as if he means what he says. Panelists explore the book’s promise for theology: historical, systematic, and beyond. Panel discussion with response by the author.
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Environmental EthicsClimate Crisis and Creation Care
Climate Crisis and Creation Care
In Response to the Call from Halki 111
by Christina Nellist | български | ქართული | ελληνικά | Română | Русский | Српски On the publication of Climate Crisis and Creation Care: Historical Perspectives, Ecological Integrity and Justice and Climate Crisis and Sustainable Creaturely Care: Integrated Theology, Governance and Justice, both edited Christina Nellist (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2021). Today, it is reasonable to…
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TheologyWhat God Wills and What God Permits
What God Wills and What God Permits
Part Two of an Interim Report on That All Shall Be Saved
by David Bentley Hart In my previous installment of this report, I addressed the final phase of the argument put forward in That All Shall Be Saved, which concerns the nature of rational freedom and the question of whether the idea of a hell of eternal torment can plausibly be defended as an expression of…
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Theology
Genesis Theology: Patristic Understandings
by Doru Costache In my early days in the University of Bucharest, I was confronted by the opinion of many colleagues and students that the Orthodox must side with creationism against evolution. This meant presenting Genesis 1–2 literally, as a scientifically accurate report on the universe. I begged to differ and ended up quite isolated….
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Theology
Is Christian Theology Possible Without the Fall?
by Paul Ladouceur Over the centuries the notion of a fall of humanity from a state of primeval bliss and communion with God has been, faute de mieux, a convenient theological coat-rack to hang such important Christian doctrines as the origin of evil and death, original sin, human moral weakness, the Incarnation of Christ and…
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Environmental Ethics
Common Senses
On Friday, Sept. 1, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Pope Francis issued a “Joint Message on the World Day of Prayer for Creation.” Just over one page long, the pithy document packs an ethical imperative into its message about prayer for creation. This isn’t the first time that a pope and Patriarch have opined together on…
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