Editing Fall of man (section)

===Meta-historical fall===
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The biblical fall of man is also understood by some [[Christian theology|Christian theologians]], especially those belonging to the [[Eastern Orthodoxy|Eastern Orthodox tradition]], as a reality outside of empirical history that affects the entire history of the universe. This concept of a [[meta-historical fall]] (also called metaphysical, supramundane, or atemporal) has been most recently expounded by the Eastern Orthodox theologians [[David Bentley Hart]], [[John Behr]], and [[Sergei Bulgakov]], but it has roots in the writings of several [[early Church Fathers]], especially [[Origen]] and [[Maximus the Confessor]].<ref name="Hart 2018"/> Bulgakov writes in his 1939 book ''The Bride of the Lamb'':

<blockquote>Empirical history begins precisely with the fall, which is its starting premise. But this beginning of history lies beyond empirical being and cannot be included in its chronology. ...[With the] narrative in Genesis 3, ...an event is described that lies beyond our history, although at its boundary. Being connected with our history, this event inwardly permeates it.<ref>{{cite book |author-last=Bulgakov |author-first=Sergei |author-link=Sergei Bulgakov |year=2001 |origyear=1939 |chapter=Evil |title=The Bride of the Lamb |translator-last=Jakim |translator-first=Boris |location=[[Grand Rapids, Michigan]] |publisher=[[Wm. B. Eerdmans]] |page=170 |isbn=9780802839152}}</ref></blockquote>

American philosopher and Eastern Orthodox theologian [[David Bentley Hart]] has written about the concept of an atemporal fall in his 2005 book ''[[The Doors of the Sea]]'', as well as in his 2018 essay ''The Devil's March: Creatio ex nihilo, the Problem of Evil, and a Few Dostoyevskian Meditations''.<ref name="Hart 2018">{{cite book |author-last=Hart |author-first=David Bentley |author-link=David Bentley Hart |year=2018 |chapter=The Devil's March: Creatio ex nihilo, the Problem of Evil, and a Few Dostoyevskian Meditations |editor1-last=Anderson |editor1-first=Gary A. |editor2-last=Bockmuehl |editor2-first=Markus |editor2-link=Markus Bockmuehl |title=Creation ex nihilo: Origins, Development, Contemporary Challenges |location=[[Notre Dame, Indiana]] |publisher=[[University of Notre Dame Press]] |pages=297–318 |doi=10.2307/j.ctvpg86fq.17 |isbn=9780268102562}}</ref>