My apologies. The excerpt is Fr. Damascene quoting Vladimir Lossky.
Patrickcbd wrote:
From Hieromonk Damascene:
\"By His death Christ ransomed man out of servitude to sin, and redeemed man from the eternal consequences of sin which had been incurred at the Fall. Christ Himself spoke of this. He said of Himself: The Son of Man came to give His life as a ransom for many (Matt. 20:28). In the Epistle to the Hebrews we read: Christ is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance (Heb. 9:15). And in the book of Apocalypse: Thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by Thy Blood (Apoc. 5:9).\"
However, there is much more that Christ accomplished, and much more for which he came. Western theology often stops at the Resurrection (they don't deny it, but often Protestantism doesn't know much of what to do with it). At the same time, I find that they don't know what to do with the Incarnation either. The focus is entirely on the Crucifixion.
I would recommend you read Fr. Damascene's entire [url=http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/inquirers/christcross.aspx]article[/url]
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