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Elaine R.S.
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An interesting critique of "the Fall" as some "event", somehow different from creation, alongside a re-evaluation of the oft-repeated idea of death as unnatural wholesale... Behr takes aim here at not just the Western conception of the fall of man, but the naive Eastern reformulation as well. he sets this up, pointing at how, for St. Paul, the introduction of such a concept is driven by Christ as hypothesis.
— Aug 01, 2026 07:37PM
Elaine R.S.
is on page 73 of 186
I liked this chapter much more. It is a very honest reflection at the idea of tradition, of doing theology, and whether "orthodoxy" can be reclaimed as a valid category in spite of the sobering reality.
Where to turn than to its founding champion, St. Irenaeus?
Some compelling evocations, some stretches of the imagination, and yet, genuine.
— Jul 18, 2026 06:54AM
Where to turn than to its founding champion, St. Irenaeus?
Some compelling evocations, some stretches of the imagination, and yet, genuine.
Elaine R.S.
is on page 44 of 186
I get what this first chapter was going for, but, despite being so central to the book's thesis, it remains surprisingly weak in its attempt to centralize the Cross. Specifically, there remains no reason given to not conceptually separate the Cross and the Resurrection, bar an aphorism that "by His death Christ conquers death- no other way". Which only ever gets you as far as "there are inseparable"... a truism.
— Jul 13, 2026 07:50PM
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This severely sucked a lot of the intuition for what Behr proceeds to quote of St. Gregory of Nyssa. While beautiful, it just felt like getting hammered over and over with the same proposition restated in different ways, that God is revealed in the Cross, as God, in the lowliness of the suffering servant. And yet, the only attempt at circumventing the intuition that the Resurrection is victory, and the Cross, at least in some sense, a tragedy... is not successfully pursued, nay for the brief wave of the hand I quoted earlier. I wish the transition had been made elegantly for obstinate, stubborn fools such as myself.
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