Bulgakov
'Creatio ex nihilo' cannot be repeated
A brief reflection on Bulgakov and the irrevocability of everything.
Nick Freiling
Nick is Managing Editor at Theophaneia. He's a father of five and lives in Jacksonville, FL.
judgment
Can We Ever Be Lost to God?
Insofar as no moment "in time" is lost on God (since God is not bound by time and moments to God do not, as to us, slip away), what happens to those moments wherein one "chooses" God if we are to believe that one could later
Good Friday
Jesus Didn't Kill Himself
At Calvary, Jesus was executed by the earthly powers of his day. "Atonement" cannot be sanitized of this political and historical reality.
apocalypse
An Inconvenient Horizon: Apocalypse Versus the Cult of an Endless Tomorrow
In an age of techno-nationalist optimism, apocalypse is heresy. But only our eschatological horizon can reveal what is ultimately illusory.
eucharist
Mircea Eliade and Primordial Eucharist
Catholic and Orthodox Christians participate in Mircea Eliade's "eternal return" on the occasion of every eucharistic celebration.
Thomas
Doubting Disciples and "Proof of Death"
Thomas' stipulations are as much proof that Jesus had, in fact, died as they were proof of his resurrection.
Bulgakov
A Gilded Manger is No Longer Christ's
Persecution and poverty of spirit do not run counter to the spirit of Christmas. In fact, such conditions are at the heart of incarnation itself.
apocalypse
On the Uses and Abuses of "Realized Eschatology"
Insofar as we persist in using the word eschatology, it cannot by definition, for us here and now, ever be fully "realized."
time
John Betz on Eternity's Marian Bearer
In a Christian theology of time, according to John Betz, time has more than just analogical value vis-à-vis eternity. It is, rather, eternity's "Marian bearer."
David Bentley Hart
All Longing Leads Us Back to God
The essential structure of all conscious mental agency is a relation to God as mind's only proper end, says David Bentley Hart.
children
Children of the Eschaton
If the disciples are to expect some kind of biological or spiritual progeny, then whence apocalypse?
time
Profane Duration and Sacred Time
Religious man lives in two kinds of time, of which the more important, sacred time, appears under the paradoxical aspect of a circular time – a sort of eternal mythical present periodically reintegrated by means of rites.