Chapter Four: Knowing God
Moses asked to see God, and He answered him: “You cannot see my face, because man cannot see me and live... Then I will raise my hand and you will see […]
Chapter Three - Detailed Explanation of the Constitution: From “And He Ascended to Heaven” to “Deification”
15- And he ascended to heaven. On the fortieth day of Resurrection, Jesus ascended to heaven and sat at the right hand of the Father. The right hand of God -
Chapter Twenty-Two - The Saints of Our Church
The person who is enlightened by the uncreated divine actions “has the knowledge of the glory of God, that glory which is on the face of Christ, shining in his heart, and he becomes a “partaker of the divine glory” and a “participant in the holiness of God.” The Christian who lives in the grace of God becomes a “member of the body of Christ,” that is, a part of the body of the incarnate God, living the life of Christ himself and radiating the divine light.
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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 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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Christian sects and heresies
Purpose of the material: Christian heresies, a material whose purpose is to identify the sects and heresies that exist in the world on the one hand, especially in the region.
The possibility of knowing and seeing God
We saw that God's personal revelation of Himself took place through divine appearances, in various ways, before the patriarchs and prophets in the Old Testament.
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