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Chapter Twenty-Five - The Transformation of the World

The Church's war, then, is not against the body but against its passions. If the man of the new creation is freed from his corrupt passions, his senses and his entire body will become pure and enlightened, and everything around him will shine with the love and glory of God. In the lives of the saints of our Church there are examples of liberation from the slavery of passions.

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Chapter Ten - The Person of the Holy Spirit

ليس الروح القدس غريباً عن طبيعة الآب، فهو يأتي من جوهره، أي أن كلاهما من جوهر واحد. لا يستطيع الإنسان أن يصل إلى هذه الحقيقة بمفرده، ولا بدّ أن يرشده الروح القدس نفسه، ولا نستطيع أن نضع له حدوداً، أو أن نفصله عن الآب والابن.

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Chapter Six - The Image of the Triune God

الإنسان مخلوق إذن على صوره الله المثلث الأقانيم. وهذا يعني وجوب معرفة الله من أجل الوصول إلى معرفة حقيقة ماهية الإنسان وطبيعته الخاصة، لأن الله هو نموذج الإنسان، ويعني أيضاً أن الإنسان ليس النموذج بل صورة له.

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Chapter Seven: Saint Gregory Palamas and the Tradition of the Fathers

The Church is of course “apostolic,” but it is also patristic. It is essentially the “Church of the Fathers.” These two “characteristics” cannot be separated, and because it is “patristic,” it is truly “apostolic.” The witness of the Fathers is more than a historical feature, more than a voice from the past.

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Chapter Three: The catholicity of the Church

The Church is the work of Christ on earth and is the image of His presence and dwelling in the world. When the Holy Spirit descended on the Church on the Day of Pentecost, which was represented by the Twelve and those gathered with them, He entered the world to dwell among us and to make His work more effective in us than before.

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