Athanasius tells us that the crucified savior is the one who creates the cosmos.
He says that the divine and human person who ascends the cross is the Word who in the beginning speaks all things into existence.
Christ is begotten of the Father from eternity and begotten of Mary in time.
Fr. John Behr says there is a logical priority in that but not a temporal one. You cannot ask how long after one begetting the other happens. It does not work that way.
Behr sees no “pre-incarnate Christ” in the fathers, only in modern theology. There is simply the one subject of the Word who simply is the crucified creator from eternity.
So the only creator there is the one who is on the cross and the cross is itself the creative act that founds the cosmos, the axis from which andto which all times find their origin and orientation. Any and all gods that are not this crucified Word who creates the world in love and who loves the world he creates and who becomes the good humanity that he makes, who becomes clay to save us from death, from falling back into non-existence‹are idols made by human minds and hands.
Even the ones that Christians project.
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