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Triumph of the Cross. 12th-century apsis mosaic from Basilica San Clemente in Rome. (Image: commons.wikimedia.org)
By Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D.,
Seeing as the Incarnate Lord is the exemplar of every creature, it stands to reason that his life, death, and resurrection should in some way be reflected in the created world modeled after him.
My last column delved into the Church’s belief that each creature—even those we find irritating or inconsequential—mirrors the beauty of the divine Logos in our world.
Yet, even as every feature of the cosmos reflects its Creator, the Catholic tradition underscores something further in connection with this. As St. Gregory of Nyssa said in the fourth century, “all the fullness of nature together” in some way bears the image of God. But how, precisely, does the fabric of the universe as a whole manifest its divine Origin? …
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