Please, do me (and yourself) a favour and read this piece by Onesimus Online. It is a superb article which eloquently expresses many things that I have as half-formed thoughts in my mind. It’s a longish article and it isn’t particularly easy, but it really is fantastic.
Archimandrite Innocentios Byatunga began his homily last Sunday at Nairobi’s Cathedral of Sts Cosmas and Damian, following the gospel reading from Matthew 25 of the parable of the sheep and the goats, with this three-word sentence: ‘Salvation is societal.’ This was unexpected. As was his next sentence, which tied our salvation directly to the very essence of God as Trinity. Just as God himself is a society of love, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, just as humanity reflects God’s society and capacity for love in that the created image of God in humanity is both male and female together, just as sin is ultimately the rejection of the choice to love, and ultimately the rejection of the Trinitarian society of love, so salvation is humanity’s reintroduction into the life of the Trinitarian society of love, humanity recreated in the resurrected Christ with the capacity and vocation to love restored. (Read the whole article)
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