THE MORBID DIMENSION OF SIN
THE MORBID DIMENSION OF SIN

Summary/Abstract: This study accentuates the true source of the state of illness: conditional or unconditional, wilful or forced distancing form the heavenly state, the state of well-being. Theology seeks the cause of disease in the relationship between the Creator and creation. Human illness appears after the fall from Heaven, when all of Nature, the Universe and their harmony became troubled. Thus, Holy Fathers consider that the source of all disease, impotence, suffering, and death, as well as all the shortcomings that affect human nature is man’s free will, which is also responsible for the Original Sin. All diseases cause physical and/or psychological and spiritual suffering, as they highlight, sometimes cruelly, the fragility of the human condition, recalling the fact that biological life and health are not the goods we possess, the body which is subjected, in this life to damage and, eventually, death. Disease is thus a challenge for both body and soul, engaging both the human being and „destiny”, imposing itself, in the context of a genuine Christian living experience, overcoming this test, assuming the disease and various forms of suffering that accompany it, as well as finding solutions both theoretical and practical. It is essential to the continuation of his volitional living and looking for fulfilment in suffering which is nothing but the life in Christ.

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