Good Faith and Authenticity in Christ’s Self-Disclosure

Abstract Yannaras interprets the fall as a descent from the potentiality of realising authentic selfhood in God to a fragmented human nature. Sartre claimed that God and belief are dead, and the only certainty is death and nothingness. This article explores how Christ in His incarnation and death on the cross overcomes the human will’s narcissistic bent by uniting human nature to the will of the divine logos. It discusses Gregory of Nyssa’s idea of the soul’s recovery of its pre-fall potentiality in spiritual struggle toward God and how Christ draws those who love Him into Himself to participate in the body of Christ through the Eucharist.