Let Everything that has ENERGY praise their REDEEMER!

 

Everything else is commentary.

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THE RED-UNDERLINED PORTION DEFINES "IS."

“At the center of St. Maximus’ theological and christological universe is the doctrine of

Recapitulation. It is this doctrine which forms the basis of all that the New Testament

and the Fathers have to say in connection with the Incarnation. While the term

“recapitulation” itself appears only twice in the New Testament, the concept itself occurs

repeatedly; one has only to recognize its principles of operation in order to know when it

is being applied. These may be categorized as follows: 1) preeminence 2) repetition and

recontextualization, 3) reversal, and 4) fulfillment.

 

“The Confessor elegantly summarizes this doctrine and its principles of operation in a

compact sentence: “The One Logos is the many logoi, and the many logoi are the One

Logos.” (Ambigua 7, PG 91:1081C). In other words, in His incarnation and

enhominzation, Jesus Christ possesses and is all the fullness of the universals common

both to deity and humanity. In terms of the four principles enumerated above, then, this

works itself out in a multitude of ways. In terms of preeminence, it means that Christ is

both the presupposition, the method, the paradigm, and the summit of whatever might

be said either about God or about man. God is truly, uniquely, ultimately, and finally

revealed in the Word Incarnate. And man, perfect humanity, is also only understood

properly in its union with the Word. In scriptural terms, Jesus Christ is the Alpha and

Omega of all that can be said about God and man, and thus has the preeminence “in all

things” (Col. 1:18). Being thus, preeminent in all things, Christ becomes the final context,

the ultimate and perfect “recontextualization” and repetition, of the logoi, understood

here as both the words of the Old Testament Scriptures and the principles of nature: of

creation as a whole and man in particular. That is, not only are the typological themes of

Scripture repeated in His Incarnate Economy from His conception of His Second Advent,

of each individual human being in particular. In doing so, he reverses the effects of the

Fall. As the Second Adam, the entire drama of the Fall is replayed, this time to an

opposite conclusion. Instead of a Fall into passions and corruption, mankind in Christ is

raised and exalted. Deification and the spiritual life, in other words, are integral

components and implications of the doctrine of Recapitulation. By thus repeating, and in

some cases reversing, the typological themes of Holy Scripture and the natural laws and

stages of humanity, Christ is not only preeminent in all things, but fulfills all Old

Testament prophecy and expectation concerning His Coming, there being nothing more

that can be said about them outside of and without reference to Christ.”

–Dr. Joseph P. Farrell (+Photios), Introduction to The Disputation with Pyrrhus Of Our

Father Among The Saints Maximus the Confessor, p. iii-iv

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