Not just a matter of avoiding sin: “Purification of the heart means Purification, illumination and glorification-theosis. The Spiritual Perfecting of Christians analyses the stages of In other words, that all Orthodox Christians may be numbered And what is the outcome? The Sunday of All Saints. Baptism in the Holy Spirit takes placeĪt Pentecost. “What is the purpose of Orthodoxy? It is clear from the calendar He also asks: “Without becoming a temple of the Holy Spirit, howĬan anyone become a theologian?” Fr. The Holy Spirit.Who prays in man’s heart.This is the reality.” If one reads the Apostle PaulĬarefully, he is not using empty words every time he describes John stresses the empiricalĮlement of St Paul’s teaching: “For someone to be a temple of the The Mystery of Pentecost shows that the experience of Pentecost With man, but man with God through the mystery of the Cross,Īnd through this reconciliation man is transformed from anĮnemy of God into His friend, and participates in the Scripture.” Christians must personally experience the Mystery John comments: “We also know these things from theĮxperience of glorification, not simply from reading Holy Is “a punishment from God” and sets out the evidence that it isĪn illness. The Incarnation of the Son and Word of God is not justĪ historical event but “a spiritual event that is confirmed byĮmpirical knowledge”. Analyzing the Transfiguration of Christ,įr. John argues against St Augustine’s view that death The Fall of Man does not mean “inheriting the guilt of Adam andĮve. The ancestral sin was not an affront to God, but a sickness However, his nous prays within the heart, then the Spirit is praying.” Prays with his rational faculty, that is human prayer.When, The illuminated nous returns to the heart and prays: “When man Heart, but it is not in the heart when it is not functioning correctly”. Possess a noetic faculty (nous) “which is supposed to be in man’s Uncreated energy of God within creation.”Ĭommenting on the Creation of Man, Fr. “When someone is in the state of illumination he…sees the Discussing the Demons ofĭarkness, he states uncompromisingly: “Being a theologian meansįirst and foremost that someone is an expert in the wiles of theĭevil.” God’s personal direction of world is a matter of experience: John reviews the scriptural and patristic teaching on theĬreation of the World from non-being. Is the Angel of the Lord, the Lord of Glory, Yahweh, the Lordįr. Old Testament: “It is Christ Who appears to the Prophets.Christ
The revelation of the Holy Trinity begins in the The dogma of the Holy Trinity, which it is possible to understand,Īnd the mystery of the Holy Trinity, which defies humanĬomprehension. The Church’s teaching on the Holy Trinity distinguishes between Mystery of his own experience, which he does not completely But his words are also illuminated by the Participation in ecumenical dialogues, he sees Orthodox dogma Because of his Americanīackground, his wide-ranging academic research and his ItĪddresses central dogmatic issues in the light of theĮxperience of the Apostles and saints. "Volume 2 completes the Empirical Dogmatics of the OrthodoxĬatholic Church by Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos,īased on the spoken teaching of Fr. Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.00 inches Publisher: Birth of the Theotokos Monastery (2013) 2: Holy Trinity-Creation-Fall-Incarnation-Church. From the Mount Thabor Publishing website.Īccording to the Spoken Teaching of Father John Romanides,
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