Faith and belief

1:3 - The conflict over the doctrine of the divine incarnation - The Third Council (Apollinaris, Theodore of Missis, Nestorius)

But soon theologians moved to propose the quality of the “union” between Jesus’ divine essence and his human essence. In Antioch - as he sees […]

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Chapter Twenty-Nine - Orthodox Virtues

Man’s true nature and true life do not emanate from earthly data, but from the Triune God Himself, because man is the image of God. If we want to seek man’s true life, we must draw near to God and savor His life. Only life close to God is “natural,” that is, life that corresponds to man’s true nature. As for distance from God, it is “unnatural.”

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Chapter Twenty-Eight - The Ritual Year

The life of the saints is the life of Christ himself, continuing throughout the ages. We are united to them on the basis of the human nature that Christ reformed through his incarnation, death and resurrection. In the divine liturgy, and especially the Eucharist, we participate in the life of Christ and its events and in the life of the saints, because we are all one body, Christ, the saints and ourselves, and we are all “one in Christ Jesus.”

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