Beautiful! I love how you use grammar and words to explore our relationships with God and how we see what we think is reality because we think in words, that sometimes separate us from God.
Thank you for this deeply contemplation expressed in rational terms.
It brings to mind Nietzsche’s thoughts on being (noun) vs becoming (verb). I cannot agree with the majority of his conclusions but have found this distinction to be helpful in thinking about our own theophanizing.
How often great thinkers run an asymptotic path and never arrive at the feet of the Creator!
This was an interesting article. I going on my memory and It have been many years since I have read Maximus the Confessor but I’m fairly certain, that if hd had said “Creation is theophany” that such s pantheistic sounding claim would be something I would have remembered.
Based on my memory he did offer a speculative idea that creation was moving towards its end which is unity with God, but to me that is significantly different from “creation is theophany.”
An excellent and appreciated summary and clarification.
Beautiful! I love how you use grammar and words to explore our relationships with God and how we see what we think is reality because we think in words, that sometimes separate us from God.
Thank you for this challenging yet accessible and uplifting article!
Thank you for this deeply contemplation expressed in rational terms.
It brings to mind Nietzsche’s thoughts on being (noun) vs becoming (verb). I cannot agree with the majority of his conclusions but have found this distinction to be helpful in thinking about our own theophanizing.
How often great thinkers run an asymptotic path and never arrive at the feet of the Creator!
This was an interesting article. I going on my memory and It have been many years since I have read Maximus the Confessor but I’m fairly certain, that if hd had said “Creation is theophany” that such s pantheistic sounding claim would be something I would have remembered.
Based on my memory he did offer a speculative idea that creation was moving towards its end which is unity with God, but to me that is significantly different from “creation is theophany.”