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One Love
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Posted 1/20/2012 2:54 PM (GMT -6)

Read this first.

See what you think.

For Tom: Bulgakov's "Sophia" <=> Richard Creel's "plenum"?

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

Post Edited (One Love) : 1/20/2012 2:02:26 PM (GMT-6)

One Love
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Posted 1/20/2012 4:04 PM (GMT -6)

Human "hypostaticity" (Bulgakov) allows for our exocentric self-hypostasizing via the Spiritual Presence of God in Christ. Humanity is designed for being God-centered. To relate exocentrically towards anything other than God--including paradoxically one's own hypostatic reality--is to begin falling away from fulness of human life. Jesus demonstrates the perfection of human "hypostaticity" as he was completely transparent before his Father's hypostasis via the Holy Spirit, expressing trinitarian life in human experience. Christians re-present this reality in being increasingly transparent before Christ's hypostasis via the Holy Spirit (John 17) as "extensions" of the Incarnation, expressing trinitarian life in human experience.

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

Post Edited (One Love) : 1/20/2012 3:12:18 PM (GMT-6)

One Love
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Posted 1/20/2012 5:35 PM (GMT -6)

Before Christ, man was the sole hypostasis for the world's hypostaticity, in Christ the Logos appeared, that hypostasis, having shared with man the common hypostaticity, having the Sophanic nature in both its aspects. In him occurred the union of both aspects through the ground of the Church, uniting the earthly with the heavenly. And the human created hypostasis in the manifold aspects of his repetitions is united in Christ with the proto-image, and becomes his church. The human image merges with the proto-image, and disappearing in it as a spark in fire, man, as it were, declines his created hypostasis for the eternal hypostasis of Christ, in which connection the "salvation" of every man consists precisely in this, that "having ruined his own soul," to find eternal life with Christ and in Christ, and thereby to realize in himself the unconditional hypostasis, i.e. having overcome his own multi-hypostaticity, to conquer in love created limitedness, having melted his own I, to pour it into the ocean of trihypostaticity ("we will come and create a home with him," Jn 14:23).

Sergii Bulgakov

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

One Love
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Posted 1/20/2012 6:03 PM (GMT -6)

Christ has the Body-Church, the house of God (1 Tim 3:15); hypostaticity in Christ possesses its own hypostasis and in that sense in the Church each man is one with Christ, is Christ, living in all. Nevertheless his body itself is not Christ, but only of Christ, it belongs to him in self-surrendering love.

Sergii Bulgakov

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

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