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The theory of the Universe decay and the Fathers' faith
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- Теория распада Вселенной и вера Отцов
- Russian
- Saprykin, Dmitry
- Various approaches to the problem of correlation between science and theology
- 1996
- Епископ Василий Родзянко [Author]. The theory of the Universe decay and the Fathers' faith
- Теория распада Вселенной и вера Отцов
- Evolution - Stephen Hawking - Big Ben
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- http://www.rodzianko.org/russian/works/book/
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The author is an outstanding representative of Russian Emigration, a student of Metropolitan Antoniy Khrapovitskiy and archbishop St. John Maximovich. During long time he broadcasted a Russian BBC theological program which has had an immense impact to the Orthodoxy revival in Russia.
The book of Bishop Vasiliy is an ingenious endeavor to reconcile traditional Christian theology and contemporary scientific view of the world origin. The work is based on the modern interpretation of the Cappadocian Fathers’ theology, particularly on the Basil’s the Great.
Bishop Vasiliy, as well as some Catholic theologians, builds his study on the works of Stephen Hawking, the Big Ben theory adherent. Unlike Catholic authors, Rodzianko is not inclined to match the World Creation and the Big Ben.
Bishop Vasiliy identifies the Big Ben as a lapse from virtue: “the sin rooted in the core of human spirit, which had chosen the diabolic system of the world consisted in mutual consuming of each other “in order to survive”. The shock following this choice was so crushing that the Universe has rearranged instantly. Gripped by the diabolic nihility, eerie “nothingness” parasitizing on God’s creation, it turned to flying apart from the “nothingness” to all directions, and following the principle of “mutual repulsion” has flown to diabolic abyss”.
Rodzianko links evolution with the Providence, which “has withdrawn the man out of the Eden after the Fall, and fighting against “the prince of this world” guided evicted Adam by His centuries old ways to this already arranged for him land, in order to save him by His Divine Incarnation and to retrieve him together with his descendants to the Eden”. Bishop Vasiliy supposes the verse “Behold, I make all things new” (Rev.21,5) indicates evolution: “In the development of the fallen world there comes its restoration, entire transfiguration; general resurrection and final victory of the God’s Wisdom in Christ being prepared by the end of the centuries”. The Providence is the anthropic principle for the author.
Thereby, the cosmology of Bishop Vasiliy Rodzianko is the following: our world evolves from the Big Ben (the Fall) to that condition of original paradise which was lost for us through the Adam’s lapse from virtue.
The author’s key ideas include the sameness of the creatures’ logos with the creatures, and the personal (hypostatic) existence in Adam of all the mankind: “Adam… is the name for the first man, and also for the cumulative mankind – uni-Adam”.
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