Holiness as Surprise

A colleague in Greece, an Orthodox theologian, just shared an interesting article with me tonight which I want to pass on to those who like surprises. The challenging thing about surprises, of course, is that they are not all good! But perhaps they are all God? If you are someone who likes life to be very predictable you will not enjoy this article - but, come on, who want predictability!

Athanasios Papathanasiou (right) teaches at the Hellenic Open University in Athens and contributed this article to the International Journal of Orthodox Theology on whose advisory board he serves. He talks about the surprise of the journey, of suffering, of creating the world anew and of liberation; and then ends with the surprise of the anti-superman.

"The Christian is he who is waiting, but this waiting is not inertia. The waiting Christian is a traveller, together with his God, who is not only coming, but also going"

Access the full article here.