Meditiations on "Creation is Incarnation" Pt. 3
The entire meditation was inspired from reading Jordan Daniel Wood’s paper Creation Is Incarnation: The Metaphysical Peculiarity of the Logoi in Maximus Confessor. You can get it here. To start this series, read part 1 here, and part 2 here.
The cosmic incarnation of Christ is by necessity an eschatological reality, as unity with the divine nature cannot have an end in time. It is infinite, therefore this unity will manifest in ever more wonderful ways, for all time.
But what about sin? Surely the current state of the cosmos is not perfection.
Yes, this is true. However, because of Christ, we see that even sin and death cannot stop God's work. In fact, it is because of the incarnation that we can say the Logos is able to bear and overcome the fallenness of creation. Without the cosmic incarnation, the particular incarnation is not possible, for the latter reveals the former, and the unassumed is the unredeemed. This means that creation is yet to fully manifest its resurrection, as St. Paul says, the cosmos awaits the revelation of the sons of God. Creation passages like Genesis 1 are then to be viewed Christologically, as eschatological realities, because if Creation is hidden in a womb in pain, awaiting birth, then the "perfect" world of Genesis 1 is hidden to us, and is only revealed in and by Christ, in whose image everything was made:
He is the light of Day one that reveals all things.
He is the firmament of Day two that holds the stars and has the voice of many waters.
He is the Holy land of Day three that rises out of and above the sea of death in the resurrection.
He is the Greater light of the new covenant prefigured in the lesser light of the law that makes us all like the stars of the sky of Day four.
He is the word that birthed the plants and sea creatures of Day five, like he did for Simon Peter on his boat.
He is the fulfillment of all the land animals that prefigure man on Day six, and He is Adam himself, his archetype and fulfillment. He is both Masculine in his birth and Feminine in his death, for He births the church through his pierced side.
Lastly, He is the Lord of the Sabbath, the Sabbath in human flesh, who comes down to dwell in His Creation temple on Day seven, who tabernacled among us in a Jewish man, who incarnates in His finished creation, who is all in all, for it is good, as He is good. Amen.