The English word "perfect" might be a utopian concept..
Complete or finished means something, perfect is nebulous..
“The English word “perfect” might be a utopian concept..
Complete or finished means something, perfect is nebulous..”
Maybe, but you know, theology expressed in Greek as by the Ecumenical Councils and the Fathers tends to be both precise and nebulous at the same time. As the theology of the Councils and the The Fathers is expressed, the precision of word often expresses a certain nebulosity of concept. The West, as heirs of the Latin tradition and language, generally has a problem with this. The Scholaticism of the Middle Ages Latin Church is just such a reaction to the apparent contentment of the East with less than precise conceptualization and definition. For example, the Christian East believes wholeheartedly in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. It stops right there; it doesn’t try to explain the hows and whys of the Mystery. The Holy Spirit does it and that’s that. There is no issue about whether the bread and wine still exist qua bread and wine. The Latins went on centuries later, after the Great Schism if I recall correctly, to try to define and explain the Mystery, calling it “Transubstantiation” and speaking of substances and accidents.