It would be great if you could do an interview with Margaret Barker. Your topic here reminds me of her writings, especially her book The Great Angel. I don't think you can have proper grasp of the Gospel without understanding the history of human divinization in the temple traditions.
Fascinating stuff. I’m reminded of something Balthasar says in his book on Maximus. I’m paraphrasing from memory, but it’s something along the lines that for Maximus, as people are added to the body of Christ, the incarnation continues and Christ is progressively “built into reality.”
Interestingly, there's a movement among some evangelicals (Michael Heiser is a leading example) to embrace divine and incarnational multiplicty in pursuit of Biblical literalism. Of course, what this gets you is a pretty extreme version of theistic personalism, so I consider it more a reductio ad absurdum for fundamentalism than a cogent theological project.
It would be great if you could do an interview with Margaret Barker. Your topic here reminds me of her writings, especially her book The Great Angel. I don't think you can have proper grasp of the Gospel without understanding the history of human divinization in the temple traditions.
Fascinating stuff. I’m reminded of something Balthasar says in his book on Maximus. I’m paraphrasing from memory, but it’s something along the lines that for Maximus, as people are added to the body of Christ, the incarnation continues and Christ is progressively “built into reality.”
Interestingly, there's a movement among some evangelicals (Michael Heiser is a leading example) to embrace divine and incarnational multiplicty in pursuit of Biblical literalism. Of course, what this gets you is a pretty extreme version of theistic personalism, so I consider it more a reductio ad absurdum for fundamentalism than a cogent theological project.
Does this cut off at the end?