Sublime

Pavel Florensky

Embracing True Christianity

Both in our churches and in our culture at large, we talk about “heaven and hell” as if they are two coequal counterparts competing for our eternal destiny, and we assume this is the way the Bible talks about them too. But this is simply not the way it talks about them.

It is godless because the presence of an eternal order, natural or supernatural, is no longer so intimately woven into the fabric of everyday life that the existence of this order is as obvious as that of the world itself.

To many, what was most startling about the new cosmology was not that humanity had been expelled from the heart of reality, but that change and disorder had been introduced into the beautiful harmonies above.

so Barth had to start all over, seeking a way to speak of the coming of a transcendent God into the immanent frame of modern life.