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His Words and Creatio ex Nihilo

2ndSunday in Advent 2019 - Sermon preached by Fr. Hart on December 8, 2019 at St. Benedict's ACC in Chapel Hill NC. CLICK HERE

Hart thunders like Amos against cruel, incoherent religion.

Belief in an eternal hell relies upon a literal, which is to say static, reading of Genesis. To preach fire and brimstone one must first conjugate the triune God’s deliberation (“Let us make humankind in our image”) into the past tense. Creation from nothing, as church fathers like Gregory of Nyssa saw clearly, does not refer to God’s primordial act but to an eschatological one which witnesses to God’s ultimate—as in teleological—relation to creation.

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