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The 16th‑century Kabbalist Rabbi Isaac Luria offered a brilliant theological response to a classic paradox: How can an infinite, omnipresent God create a finite world without ceasing to be infinite? If God fills all reality, then there is no "space" (conceptual or otherwise) for anything that is...

This is the mythic perception that Christianity preserves alongside its transcendent perspective, because our imagination can render spirit only through naïve, earthly images. Once, humans imagined themselves living together with the gods. This is a common motif in world religions, expressing...

My three latest articles deal with precisely this. In pagan times, people believed the world was suffused with divine powers. Christianity marks the abolition of that worldview and the turn towards a transcendent perspective.

If God were present in the world in the same way creatures are present then nothing else could truly exist in its own right. A world saturated by divine immediacy would be swallowed by it. Creaturely independence would collapse. Every causal chain, every intention, every movement would be divine...

The divine is now absent from the world. Isn't that simply a fact? We have become thoroughly secularized. Is this the hidden problem for Christians, that the world is disenchanted? Stop pretending it isn't.

The apostles were not serene, confident mystics awaiting resurrection. They were shattered human beings, and the New Testament is remarkably honest about it. Pentecost, in this light, is a reconstitution of a broken community. Taken together, the evidence is overwhelming: Peter says, "I am...

It was the Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar who introduced the idea that we are actors on the stage of God's drama. The concept has gained little traction among theologians. Its structure is essentially pagan. A pagan impulse has always been present within Christianity, especially...

He left the apostles, and it shattered them. They had not anticipated it. But then Pentecost came, and the Holy Spirit descended. That is the pattern: the world remains empty of the divine unless God chooses to enter it. We are meant to relinquish the notion that we are naturally immersed in the...

The words are heavy with meaning. The Fall was thereby brought to completion, and humanity gradually came to perceive the cosmos as disenchanted. Today, for the first time in human history, we no longer live surrounded by spirits and demons. As Jean‑Luc Nancy observes, Christianity designates...

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...