Having sat under Fr John Behr’s teaching over the last few days, I can hear a deep resonance. He makes a distinction, as per Irenaeus I believe, between bodily death - which, in Christ, has become the means of us coming to be born - and the fear or sting of death, which holds us paralysed and stops us taking hold of death (as we pour out ourselves on behalf of others) now. Great stuff
Yes, I've learned a lot from Fr John's work over the years! He's wonderful. And yes, in fact I wish I'd included a further meditation on Hebrews 2:15. Often the tradition is presented as if the Evil One holds human beings in slavery through death, in the sense of bodily death. But we are enslaved to him not through bodily death but through the FEAR of bodily death. It is this fear which faith in the Passion cures. The incarnation, in this reading, becomes a revelation of the rationality, the reason, the purpose—i.e. the logos—of our physical mortality.
Having sat under Fr John Behr’s teaching over the last few days, I can hear a deep resonance. He makes a distinction, as per Irenaeus I believe, between bodily death - which, in Christ, has become the means of us coming to be born - and the fear or sting of death, which holds us paralysed and stops us taking hold of death (as we pour out ourselves on behalf of others) now. Great stuff
Yes, I've learned a lot from Fr John's work over the years! He's wonderful. And yes, in fact I wish I'd included a further meditation on Hebrews 2:15. Often the tradition is presented as if the Evil One holds human beings in slavery through death, in the sense of bodily death. But we are enslaved to him not through bodily death but through the FEAR of bodily death. It is this fear which faith in the Passion cures. The incarnation, in this reading, becomes a revelation of the rationality, the reason, the purpose—i.e. the logos—of our physical mortality.
Christians are weird. Adam and eve is a story about growing into a toddler and learning how to make your own decisions, even if they are wrong.
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