196 - October 2021 Q&A
The Symbolic World
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Nominalism and the Cosmos After the Fall
The modern aira of dualism was inaugurated by nomalism, or part of the pattern itself. Why did the mediaeval synthesis have to fall apart? Is this because the cosmos after the fall, like the human person, must undergo decay and death before it is born anew? So it has to do with that. And it also has to do wi with a weird mystery, the incarnation, which is that the incarnation leads to death,. In dying, there's a covering, or are filling up. The breakdown fills the world. Even in the secularism, there is a sense in whichthat breakdown also fills up the world.
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