Abstract
Abstract Religious/philosophical understandings of the nature of reality often involve polarities: God and the world, the One and the many, the spiritual (or intellectual) and the material. The Christian doctrine of creation ex nihilo is often held to rule out any in-between, since there can be no tertium quid between the uncreated and the created. Creation ex nihilo is sometimes held to entail a world bereft of God; something heatedly disputed between Philip Sherrard and John Zizioulas, as well as between Florovsky and Bulgakov. There are many candidates for the ‘in-between’: Plato’s daimon, angels, saints, Mary, prayer and intercession, grace, sacraments, icons, together with philosophical notions such as analogia entis and the distinction between God’s essence and energies—all controversial. Could Christ underwrite the ‘in-between’ as the Incarnation of God’s creative word poised between the infinity of God and that of nothingness (Philaret)?
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