The first meaning of «λόγος» necessarily comes forth from «λέγω», that is, collection, assembly, gathering. We read in Homer: "let us collect (λέγωμεν) the bones of Patroklos Menoitios" [1]. Originally, «λέγω» meant I collect, I gather the partial elements or categorisations into the unity which is indispensable for the manifestation of the existent. Crucially, to… Continue reading Christos Giannaras on the Declaratory and Rational Character of the Logos.
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The Ecclesiological Chapters of St Justin Popović, 26–30.
26. When the holy Apostle orders us men: "be filled to all the fulness of God" (Eph. 3.19), he does not seek something impossible, for amongst us is found the God-Man Lord Jesus, in whom "dwells all the fulness of the Divinity bodily" (Col. 2.9), and who gives us his divine powers through the holy… Continue reading The Ecclesiological Chapters of St Justin Popović, 26–30.
Encyclical of the Eastern Patriarchs (1848).
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The Ecclesiological Chapters of St Justin Popović, 21–25.
21.1. Through his own economy of salvation, the God-Man opens to all of us the way of approach (προσαγωγή) to the Triadic Divinity (cf. Rom. 5.1–2; Eph. 3.12; 1 Pet. 3.18). In this divine-human economy, salvation is worked by the Father through the Son in the Holy Spirit. This is the most excellent law in… Continue reading The Ecclesiological Chapters of St Justin Popović, 21–25.
The Confession of Patriarch Dositheos of Jerusalem (1672).
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The Ecclesiological Chapters of St Justin Popović, 16–20.
16. For the recognition (ἐπίγνωσις) of Christ (Eph. 1.17), of this One of the Three Persons of the Holy Trinity, it is indispensable to have the help of the Two others: of God the Father and of God the Holy Spirit ... All the holy mysteries in the Church with the holy virtues, through which… Continue reading The Ecclesiological Chapters of St Justin Popović, 16–20.
The Shorter Catechism of St Filaret of Moscow (1824)
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The Longer Catechism of St Filaret of Moscow (1823).
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The Ecclesiological Chapters of St Justin Popović, 11–15.
11. The love (ἀγάπη – 1 Cor. 13.1f.), about which the Apostle Paul speaks, is the love of Christ; it the love which the Lord himself named "new love," and the commandment concerning it, a "new commandment." This differs from all other love in our human world. The whole "newness" of this love is found… Continue reading The Ecclesiological Chapters of St Justin Popović, 11–15.
The Ecclesiological Chapters of St Justin Popović, 6–10.
6. For the building (1 Cor. 3.10–11) of the Church of God the Lord Jesus is set as a divinely deep and divinely wide and divinely unbreakable foundation stone. He and he alone, the God-Man, is simultaneously the foundation both of the Universal Church and of the local Church, and of the household Church, and… Continue reading The Ecclesiological Chapters of St Justin Popović, 6–10.
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