I’ve been studying Athanasius On the Incarnation for theology grad school and I’ve watched several John Behr lectures and it seems that the penal substitution narrative gets swallowed up in Athanasius. It’s fascinating and beautiful. I like the contrast you’ve pointed to here vis a vis western and eastern vision of G-d.
This paragraph gave me full body chills and a mental connection that I hadn't made before. Appreciate your work! "Yet because Christ is righteous and is not due death, when the devil ultimately tries to administer death to Christ, he oversteps his boundary line in terms of his appropriate dominion. For this reason, his authority to administer death is rightly taken from him, and now God can administer life to humanity, having dethroned the devil who exercised that power unjustly and is rightly stripped of it."
This is an extraordinarily helpful explanation. On behalf of the Catholics, I’d say that while there are still many manifestations in parish life of the underlying theology described in the article, there are also manifestations of the healing/ participatory model. For example Catechism of the Catholic Church paragraph 1 states that God created man to enable man to partake of God’s own blessed life. Fr Hopko recommended the recent CCC to Orthodox priests and said that he disagreed with only maybe five sentences in it.
I’ve been studying Athanasius On the Incarnation for theology grad school and I’ve watched several John Behr lectures and it seems that the penal substitution narrative gets swallowed up in Athanasius. It’s fascinating and beautiful. I like the contrast you’ve pointed to here vis a vis western and eastern vision of G-d.
This paragraph gave me full body chills and a mental connection that I hadn't made before. Appreciate your work! "Yet because Christ is righteous and is not due death, when the devil ultimately tries to administer death to Christ, he oversteps his boundary line in terms of his appropriate dominion. For this reason, his authority to administer death is rightly taken from him, and now God can administer life to humanity, having dethroned the devil who exercised that power unjustly and is rightly stripped of it."
This is an extraordinarily helpful explanation. On behalf of the Catholics, I’d say that while there are still many manifestations in parish life of the underlying theology described in the article, there are also manifestations of the healing/ participatory model. For example Catechism of the Catholic Church paragraph 1 states that God created man to enable man to partake of God’s own blessed life. Fr Hopko recommended the recent CCC to Orthodox priests and said that he disagreed with only maybe five sentences in it.