Christianity may understand its own faith deeper, and its significance for the future if it can free itself from anthropocentric cosmology and soteriology. Can our 'faith seek understanding' of our faith other than 'human salvation.' Human salvation is central to Christian faith, but God's nature itself cannot be conditioned to our salvation alone. God's gratuitous and providential dwelling among us (the community of whole creation) is to be contemplated. We may begin to live in a world which is not a condemned world.
Creation is much larger than the human world. The what, and the how of it is just begun to unravel before us. Is God absent in what and how? Is God found only in the 'why'? It is the utter failure of an 'external divine' presence, as though someone planning and running a machine. Physics - (why) alone is not a proof for God. Why Christianity has to trust so much in the God of the gaps and distance God away more and more as what's how's and why's get answered? Where is the contemplation of the Logos before and after the thirty-three years of Christ?
With an anthropocentric orientation we may not grasp neither why nor what nor how of anything, even the human lives. Then what about Divine mysteries through narrow anthropocentric thrust?
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