"If even in Christ himself there were Selfwill at all,
Despite his Blessedness, believe me, he would fall."
Don't know quite what to make of that....
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"He who is our very life came down and took our death upon himself. He slew our death by his abundant life and summoned us in a voice of thunder to return to him in his hidden place, that place from which he set out to come to us when first he entered the Virgin's womb." ~St. Augustine
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Without reading the context, I can say that it sounds a little like heresy. :)
Ya...except it is just that. This guy only writes in little couplets.
Btw, this is from Keith's mystic! :~)
How did I know . . .
I think it sounds heretical as well. I think I might know what his point is in saying that the fall of man (or any fall) is the result of selfwill, but I think he could have articulated that much better with a different example, rather than one that says that in any way God Himself could fall. It seems to be an improper view of Christ's divinity (in his terms "blessedness"?) to say such a thing.
I haven't read any of those links yet, maybe I'll have some time later, but I just wanted to stop to say merry Christmas!
Without context, I also am not certain as to what to make of it. However, even without context, note well the "if" in the quote. This doesn't seem to be heretical to me because of the conditional "if." That would be like me saying that "If there was lust in Jesus he would look at a woman wrongly." Is that heretical since the "if" condition isn't fulfilled anyway? His blessedness already excludes lust and in a certain sense the lust already means he has fallen and any looking at a woman would merely be the outworking. It almost turns into a tautology (truism). In a certain sense if there was "selfwill" then he has already fallen. Besides his blessedness would exclude "selfwill" (all this is assuming that selfwill is some sort of sinful autonomy or something like that).
It is somewhat strange and I don't think that is the best way to make a point but I am not sure it is heretical.
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