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This final masterwork of Valentin Tomberg (1900-1973) consists of three parts. Part I, "The Seven Miracles of John's Gospel," probes deep correlations between the 7 Healing Miracles, the 7 Days of Creation, and the 7 Sacraments. Part II, "The Miracle of the Raising of Lazarus," juxtaposes the mysteries of forgetting, sleep, and death, with those of remembering, awakening, and resurrection, as a prelude to the eternal words: "Lazarus, Come Forth!" Part III, "The Miracle of Lazarus in Divine-Human History," leads to the "blinding insight" that Christianity is nothing other than the ongoing resurrection of the totality of Divine-Human History, the Ecclesia universalis.
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Valentin Tomberg was born in St. Petersburg on February 26, 1900. Having been baptized a Protestant, he entered the Greek Orthodox church shortly before 1933, and, in 1945, became a Roman Catholic. Tomberg came to regard the modern path away from natural law (founded upon religion) and toward legal positivism (oriented toward power) as a dismantling of the different levels of law (and at the same time a loss of both the idea and ideal of law)--that is, as a process of degeneration or "fall," which Tomberg seeks to reverse in the direction of regeneration.
