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Jesus's cry of dereliction is not simply an act of identifying with Psalm 22 in faithful obedience, but the moment in which divine abandonment becomes cosmically real. In accepting the full weight of disenchantment, he opens the way to resurrection. This total disenchantment is the Church's...

Divine enchantment is the experience of reality as permeated, animated, or illuminated by the presence of the divine — a state in which the world is not merely material but alive with meaning, depth, and sacred significance. A strong scriptural example of divine enchantment, the world suddenly...

Satan, as the tradition holds, inaugurated the primordial Fall, producing not a total rupture but a partial alienation of creation from the divine life. Tatian notes that this fall placed humanity under the sway of Satan and his demons, whose aim was to estrange humankind from God and redirect...

Christ's cry of dereliction ("My God, why have you forsaken me?") represents the precise moment of cosmic disillusion when Satan's enchanted cosmos collapses.

Is this attitude biblical?

What I say is entirely compatible with the biblical message. If we're not supposed to think, why did God give us an intellectual faculty?

I propose an atonement model that interprets Christ's redemptive work through the dynamic of cosmic disenchantment, integrating several soteriological frameworks within the broader historical trajectory of secularization. Drawing on Jean‑Luc Nancy, Karl Barth, and Marcel Gauchet, the model...

My article aimed to spark discussion about a compelling pattern: the concept of original sin appears across diverse cultures, from ancient Greece and Mesopotamia to Aboriginal Australia. This widespread theme suggests a universal human recognition of a primordial rupture between divine and human...

Original sin is definitively real and a very import concept. Read my recent article: [MOD EDIT: Link Removed]

If God is omniscient, he can foresee what will happen in the future. But then he cannot intervene in Creation and change anything in the future, because then his foreseeing was false. So omniscience means that God's hands are tied, which is self-contradictory. Isn't it?

We cannot find an answer to the Life Questions in a Western culture infested with hyperpluralism, relativism and godlessness. How did it come to this? Gregory sums up the argument of the book thusly: The author rejects supersessionism, the view that we can account for today's world by largely...

What John of Patmos does is to knit together themes from the Old Testament, such as the four colour horses, clearly deriving from Zechariah 6. The description of the beast is from Daniel. John paints an image inspired by earlier prophets and biblical catastrophic events, for now the time is...

It is true, we must try and understand the biblical concepts in modern terms, because the words are used differently in the bible. 'Perfect', I suppose, means 'complete' and 'whole', i.e., a person who is not conflicted but harmonious. Modern people tend to use the word in another sense, e.g...

I don't claim to understand the nature of God. This is a contribution to Christian apologetics. The dogma of the Trinity is constantly under attack for being contrary to reason. I show that it accords with reason.

I think I've figured it out: “Turtles all the way down”: The Unity of the Trinity as Eternal Regress in the Godhead