The Only Two Questions that Matter
Here is the first class in our “No Free Pizza” series. In this lecture, we answer the only two questions that matter:
Why is there something, rather than nothing?
What are you going to do about it?
The spirituality of the Orthodox Church are built on the answers to these questions. To find answers to these questions, we turn to the 7th century monk, St. Maximus the Confessor. What I especially like about St. Maximus is his argument that Christ’s incarnation was not a reaction to sin, but God’s original plan to unite all creation. And us? St. Maximus says that humanity, is a “microcosm,” and called by God to unite five fundamental dimensions of reality. Thankfully, while we failed, Christ succeeded in unifying the cosmos in his person. The life of the Church is nothing more or less, than our experiencing in our own life, Christ’s communion with the cosmos or deification (theosis).
