The essay explores the significance of love within the Christian tradition, particularly from an Eastern Orthodox perspective. It critiques conventional biological and institutional interpretations, arguing that love transcends mere reproductive purposes and reveals deeper personal significance and spiritual communion. Ultimately, love embodies a transformative connection, reflecting divine presence and challenging the finality of death.
This essay synthesizes the Patristic cosmology of St. Basil the Great and Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy, focusing on their views of time, divine nature, and creation. Both thinkers present layered, meaningful models of temporality shaped by divine intention, emphasizing the relational and participatory aspects of time in connection with God’s activity and redemption.
This essay examines Ambiguum 41 by St. Maximos the Confessor through the perspectives of Hans Jonas and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. It argues that humans, as mediators between the divine and the cosmos, engage in a participatory role in creation. Both thinkers emphasize the significance of relational being, freedom, and the potential for transformation through understanding and love.
The Beginning of Terror 