Spiritual Warfare, an evolution / devolution

March 2nd, 2019 by Charles Cameron

A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.

The artist Albrecht Durer rendered her thus:

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  1. Jim Parker:

    March 3rd, 2019 at 1:49 pm

    Very well thought out and researched Charles. You never fail to make me think.

  2. Charles Cameron:

    March 3rd, 2019 at 4:12 pm

    Thanks, Jim. We should talk poetry some more, once the political scene quiets down a bit.

  3. Charles Cameron:

    March 3rd, 2019 at 4:36 pm

    Our friend Gregory McMurry made a comment on Twitter that I’ve brought over heretrusting he won’t mind:

    I’m a big fan of St Theophan. His idea of spiritual combat was much different from 7 mountains. Purpose isn’t to conquer the world for God, but to unite through creation with the presence of God already there.

    He added this page-grab, with emphasis in yellow:

  4. Charles Cameron:

    March 3rd, 2019 at 4:55 pm

    Greg’s comment: to unite through creation with the presence of God already there.. is a nice concentrate of Theophan. I’m reminded of the remarkable speech Metropolitan John (Zizioulas) of Pergamon, gave just a handful of years ago:

    Christ, through his Incarnation, his Resurrection, his Ascension and, his sending of the Holy Spirit, has brought about the potential transfiguration of the universe. … In him fallen matter no longer imposes its limitations and determinisms; in him the world, frozen by our downfall, melts in the fire of the Spirit and rediscovers its vocation of transparency.

    And this in turn echos St Maximus the Confessor:

    That is why the Word became flesh: to open to us, through the holy flesh of the earth transformed into a eucharist, the path to deification.

    All this cuts to the root of the matter, indeed to the heart of matter itself — spirit. It expresses, as it were, in poetry what Pope Francis expressed in the somewhat lyrical prose of his Encyclical Laudato Si’
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    Metropolitan John is the author of Preserving God’s Creation: three lectures on theology and ecology (King’s Theological Review 12-13 (1989-1990)
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