St Maximus the confessor, following Gregory of Nyssa (On the Creation of Man 16-18, PG 44:177ff.), comes to the very root of the problem of human existence when he regards the biological mode of procreation as a result of the Fall (Ambigua 41, 42, PG 81:1309A, … ). Those who attribute this view of Maximus […]
Read MoreAt one time, in very late antiquity, Western Christians could speak with firm if dour certitude of a place of real physical and mental agony to which the vast majority of the race would be consigned at the end of days and to which even babies would be sent forever and ever if they were […]
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February 22, 2023
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