The cross of Christ is not, after all, simply an eternal validation of pain and death, but their overthrow. If all the tribulations of this world wer… - David Bentley Hart
" "The cross of Christ is not, after all, simply an eternal validation of pain and death, but their overthrow. If all the tribulations of this world were to be written off as calculably necessary contributions to redemption -- part of the great "balance" of things -- then Christ's sacrifice would not be a unique saving act so much as the metaphysical ground for a universe of "sacrifice," wherein suffering and death are part of the sublime and inevitable fabric of finitude; and divine providence would be indistinguishable from fate.
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About David Bentley Hart
David Bentley Hart (born 1965) is an Eastern Orthodox theologian, philosopher, and cultural commentator. (See more at the David Bentley Hart bibliography.)
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