Has anybody heard of the "Felix Culpa"? (Christian Topic)

[Unr3alGamer 230]

Has any Christian on here hear of the idea of the "Felix Culpa"? Taking latin class for 3 years, I believe this translates to "Happy Fault". I heard this phrase from my brother but he isn't going to tell me much about it until I get to 12th grade (I go to the same private school he went to before he graduated).  All he's told me about it is it's "a way to explain why God allowed the fall to happen". I've tried looking up the term but all I found was a tad bit of info on wikipedia that doesn't really explain it.

[I used to be a stranger 7,993]

Felix culpa literally means what you read, "happy fault". It comes from the Easter Hymn Exultet "O happy fault that earned for us so great, so glorious a Redeemer.", also referenced by John Milton's Paradise Lost. It's more like a pun than anything, and the thing to which it refers is that despite Original Sin, it has brought about a wonderful thing in the act of Redemption by sending Jesus Christ. So it refers to the Fall of Man as being a partially fortunate thing.

 

You're talking a flying leap into a minefield to assert that Felix Culpa is a serious theological contemplation. There might be some good in it somewhere, but there's no way you nor I would be able to find it without wading through some very silly spiritual ideas, or even outright heresies.

Edited June 1, 2015 by Blue

[Unr3alGamer 230]

Felix culpa literally means what you read, "happy fault". It comes from the Easter Hymn Exultet "O happy fault that earned for us so great, so glorious a Redeemer.", also referenced by John Milton's Paradise Lost. It's more like a pun than anything, and the thing to which it refers is that despite Original Sin, it has brought about a wonderful thing in the act of Redemption by sending Jesus Christ. So it refers to the Fall of Man as being a partially fortunate thing.

 

You're talking a flying leap into a minefield to assert that Felix Culpa is a serious theological contemplation. There might be some good in it somewhere, but there's no way you nor I would be able to find it without wading through some very silly spiritual ideas, or even outright heresies.

Ah. I read Paradise Lost for school last year, so I knew I saw it somewhere. 

 

Also, from the conversations I've overheard at my private school, the terms wasn't used in any sort of silly way. However, I have heard it's a "controversial" topic in theology. 

 

Also, the idea that you presented isn't really "heretic". It's just more "out there".

Edited June 2, 2015 by Unr3alGamer