The Divine Economy. Creation, Fall, and the Need for Grace - Sidney Goodwin

The drama of salvation begins not with human failure but with the eternal love of God. Before the foundations of the world, the Triune God willed to communicate His own life, to bring creatures into being who could receive, reflect, and rejoice in His goodness. This primordial intention-free, generous, and utterly gratuitous-forms the deepest horizon of what Christian tradition calls the divine economy. In the hands of the Fathers of the Church, it came to signify the unfolding of God's plan in history: the way the Father, through the Son and in the Holy Spirit, creates, sustains, heals, and elevates the world. To speak of the divine economy is to contemplate the unity of creation and redemption, the coherence of God's actions from the first moment of existence to the final consummation of all things in Christ.