Great read as always. A question: How do we understand “Heaven as annihilation” if we also profess the resurrection of the body? Can these two ideas be held in tension somehow?
Yes, I am hoping to write more on this in a future installment. But the short answer is this: by the extinction of our “created” selves in heaven, we return (to use Meister Eckhart’s language) to our uncreated selves, the version of ourselves that does not exist — or rather, the version of ourselves that exists only in God, even IS God. If this is so, then when our bodies rise again we shall be not ourselves, but other Christs: God in human form again, new Incarnations.
Great read as always. A question: How do we understand “Heaven as annihilation” if we also profess the resurrection of the body? Can these two ideas be held in tension somehow?
Yes, I am hoping to write more on this in a future installment. But the short answer is this: by the extinction of our “created” selves in heaven, we return (to use Meister Eckhart’s language) to our uncreated selves, the version of ourselves that does not exist — or rather, the version of ourselves that exists only in God, even IS God. If this is so, then when our bodies rise again we shall be not ourselves, but other Christs: God in human form again, new Incarnations.