Afterword: Redeeming Sin

Abstract

This brief commentary articulates a link between the second and third volumes in this series and points to a discussion of the work of redemption, grace, the Holy Spirit, and participation in the Trinity. Such a discussion forms the theological backdrop to understanding the life of graced virtue when perceived through the experience of faith. Sergii Bulgakov’s works present an aesthetic account of wisdom and participation in God that still carries some risk of pulling away from a grounded, rooted, and fully earthed perspective on human life. Disincarnate cultural trends towards transhumanism draw on science, but amount to impoverished secular accounts of redemption. All such eschatologies need to be reminded of the material, bodily, and grounded nature of human life in our creaturely contexts, so that even graced virtue which pulls away from immersion in a multispecies framework fails as fully redemptive virtue.