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Reclaiming the Atonement: An Orthodox Theology of Redemption, Volume 1: The Incarnate Word is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Reclaiming the Atonement, vol. 1: The Incarnation, Father Patrick Reardon presents the first of three volumes exploring redemption and salvation through the lens of Scripture, patristics, and liturgics, as well as through history, philosophy, language, literature, and psychology. He brings all these perspectives together to show how the whole of Christ’s work—from Incarnation to...

he that knows the mystery of the Cross and the grave also knows the defining reasons (logoi) of these things. But he that is initiated (myetheis) into the unspeakable power of the Resurrection knows the goal (skopos) God established even as He brought forth all things.10 Maximus’s understanding of redemption is not based on a philosophical, prebaptismal evaluation of sin, but on the fullness of the Christian revelation, “the mystery according to Christ.” For him, the order of things is not established
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