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Maximus has been called a cosmic theologian, and rightly so.14 For Maximus the Confessor, the world—the natural world and the “world” of the scriptural revelation—is the broad and complex theater in which God’s incarnational mission is
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“(Liberalism is like this: Purporting to offer a middle ground between radical individualism and collectivism, what it really gives us is a diabolical synthesis of the two, a bureaucratically managed libertinism.”
― The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism
― The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism
“Christ is the artist, tenderly wiping away all the grime of sin that disfigures the human face and restoring God's image to its full beauty.”
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“Now we are able to rejoice that we are saved not through the immanent mechanisms of history and nature, but by grace; that God will not unite all of history’s many strands in one great synthesis, but will judge much of history false and damnable; that he will not simply reveal the sublime logic of fallen nature but will strike off the fetters in which creation languishes; and that, rather than showing us how the tears of a small girl suffering in the dark were necessary for the building of the Kingdom, he will instead raise her up and wipe away all tears from her eyes – and there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor any more pain, for the former things will have passed away and he that sits upon the throne will say, ‘Behold, I make all things new.”
― The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami?
― The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami?
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