The Living Life
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This article by Olivier Clément is a theological meditation on the paschal mystery in the Orthodox tradition. Starting from the human condition marked by the fall, death, and hell, the author develops a reflection on the Incarnation, the Passion, and the Resurrection of Christ as the divine response to the separation between humanity and God. The central idea is that Christ, by uniting himself to death and descending into hell, accomplishes an ontological victory over nothingness, making possible the deification of humanity. Drawing on the Church Fathers — Irenaeus of Lyon, Gregory of Nyssa, Cyril of Alexandria — as well as Byzantine liturgy, Clément shows that this paschal victory extends into the sacraments of baptism and the Eucharist, into ascetic life and historical engagement, thus offering a synthesis of Orthodox soteriology articulated around the resurrection as an already present reality.
This article has not been translated yet — it is available in its French version here.
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