Only through the Trinity do we simultaneously avoid both pantheism and a de-mystified Cosmos. God is already wholly and substantially communicated and shared through the generation of the Logos within the Godhead itself, entirely selfsame with His essence. Thus the world of
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creatures is not of the Divine substance. That level of Divine self-diffusion is already fulfilled perfectly in the generation of the Son. And yet the world of Creatures is still a communication of the Divine essence, it is still a result of God diffusing and sharing His
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own essence, but from without. The Son is the perfect image of the Father within the Godhead itself, and the world is an image of the Son, so that the world is at the same time a sharing in God by reflecting the Divine essence, and yet does not share substantially in
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the Divine essence, because this is fulfilled by the Logos through Whom the world of creatures is made. So while the world is not itself Divine, the Divine is still reflected in and through every parcel of created being, by reflecting the Person of the Logos Who
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this then becomes the basis for Christianized environmentalism too.
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