Inhabitatio Dei?

Much of my theological thought and my practice of Christian life in the church have been fueled by pondering the being of the Triune God. The phrase inhabitatio dei captures part of what I have come to see as central to our understanding of the mystery of God and our life before him, namely that an authentically human participation in the richness and plenitude of the Triune Love is the eschatological goal of God’s redeeming work in Christ and that telos is anticipated and proleptically realized in the life of the Church. All God’s actions of Triune grace through the Son and Spirit seek to draw us into communion with himself, allowing us to share in the eternal dynamism of Trinitarian Life that God eternally is. The goal and destiny of humanity is to be inhabitiatio dei, that is, to dwell in God as his beloved creatures, knowing ourselves eternally in the plenitude of his infinite love which descends to us in Christ that we might ascend with Christ by grace and be drawn into the eternal feast of love which is the life of God.

This is the vision that gives me hope for my future and the future of the world.  It is also the vision that gives intelligiblity to my present circumstances and life.  In one way or another, I think it will affect just about everything I write on this blog.