CREATION BETWEEN TEMPORAL AND TIMELESS
CREATION BETWEEN TEMPORAL AND TIMELESS

Summary/Abstract: In Christian theology of all times creation occupies a special place. Even if ancient philosophy and culture introduced the concept of amorphous and sinful matter that opposes the incarnation of the Logos, the Church Fathers managed to break away from this conception by reshaping the whole cosmology based on Revelation, to overcome the opposition of the sensible world to the intelligible. Thus was born Christian cosmology, in which the intelligible world and the sensible world form a single world through the harmonious and rational order of creation, which has its center of gravity in the Logos of the Father, through whom all things were made. According to Divine Revelation, the whole of creation preserves its ontological unity in the rational order that springs from the divine Logos and constitutes a means of dialogue between man and God. The origin of the world in the divine creative act also implies its fundamental unity beyond its diversity or complexity. For contemporary science, the unity of the cosmos is beyond any doubt. For example, man is a part, but also a small synthesis of the world. It should be noted, on the one hand, that this concentric perspective, culminating in man, is scientifically updated by the so-called anthropic principle, according to which the universe was programmed to be compatible with man.It should be emphasized that, in all this dynamic movement of God, Creation was also placed between timeless and temporal, in a concentric sense, of first contact with the divinity that created it, orienting it towards eternity, that is, from the temporal to timeless, with the differences in hue and substance of that new heaven and new earth. The huge chasm between the uncreated and the created, temporal and timeless, is overcome by the energetic descent of the Godhead to the world and by its rational ascent to Him. This convergence between uncreated and created energies is possible because the world, rationally and spiritually grounded, has a theocentric meaning and movement.

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