The Age of Paradise - Strickand

[ebdesroches]

What to me was new in this excerpt is that we are better off than Adam, we share in the life of God

The primordial paradise of Adam was lost forever. However, in the "Second Adam," Jesus Christ, the apostles claimed that what had been lost due to the Fall was recovered, and even more, that in Christ communion with God assumed a fullness never known to Adam. Christians continued to live as Adam's descendants within a fallen world. But as the Church, they were given the experience of divine communion as a pledge of the eternal kingdom of heaven. Life in the world could thus become an experience likened to paradise. It was not the primordial blessing, but one incomparably greater insofar as it involved participation in the life of God through Christ and the Holy Spirit.

 

[ResidentAlien]

John Strickland, an Orthodox mystic and Catholic sympathizer—nice.

"It is the story of Christendom, a civilization with a supporting culture that directs its members toward the transformation of the world." The Age of Paradise, Introduction​

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See https://johnstrickland.org/the-rise-and-fall-of-what-the-west-once-was/

The Eastern Orthodox church is the only true church according to them. So "transformation of the world" really means the transformation of society under the banner of Orthodoxy.

 

[persistent]

John Strickland, an Orthodox mystic and Catholic sympathizer—nice.

"It is the story of Christendom, a civilization with a supporting culture that directs its members toward the transformation of the world." The Age of Paradise, Introduction​

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See https://johnstrickland.org/the-rise-and-fall-of-what-the-west-once-was/

The Eastern Orthodox church is the only true church according to them. So "transformation of the world" really means the transformation of society under the banner of Orthodoxy.

Thanks for elucidating on a confusing post!

 

[Eli1]

Thank you for sharing this Ed.
‘Thats how I live my live Now. Tasting paradise here and now in His creation. Despite all the evil and suffering that came with free-will.