Medieval Civilization: Millennia in Microcosm Week 162

Unlike the Greek gods, who acted within nature and could even blur into heroic human forms, the Christian God became utterly remote—an infinite being with no peers, whose will might be read in anything from plagues to profit losses. This radical moralization of divine signs and purposes widened the gulf between humanity and divinity, redefining religion in terms of abstraction and absolute power. At the heart of this transformation is the paradox of Christ as both God and Man, a “living contradiction” meant to bridge the infinite divide.
D. Divine Teleology, Heaven and Hell
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