A Gregorian Interview
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I was recently interviewed by a young man named Kevin Gregorio for his podcast Only Boring People (how could I refuse an invitation to that?). The topics were theological, metaphysical, doctrinal… (that sort of thing). Below is the link to the YouTube version.
What? The garden of Eden didn't literally happen? I am shocked! (Doing my best Claude Rains from Casablanca impersonation)
I am interested - no, I am curious - as to what your thoughts are on Maximus’ statement that the fall of Adam occurred “at the same instant he came to be”.
As one who seems to take Maximus at his word, would you say that his understanding is akin to your statement that The Fall is a cataclysm of the inauguration of the moral? Is it that any finite creature, upon its creation, falls away from the Divine?
Perhaps, this is the “Instant/cataclysm” in which the gnomic will is pulled into the equation - where we are cast from the garden and beckoned to return to our telos - the true Human Being: Jesus Christ.
What is a better way of putting this? Anyone?