With these blessed powers, O Master and Lover of Mankind, we sinners also cry out and say: "Holy are You, truly all-holy!" There is no limit to the majesty of your holiness. You are revered in all … [Read more...]
The Churching of the World
"the churching of the World" - Anestis Keselopoulos, Man and the Environment … [Read more...]
Theological Episteme
"Theological language uses episteme, but cannot reduce itself to it without falling yet again from this world." - Vladimir Lossky … [Read more...]
The Illusion of Concepts
"Yet theological thought can also become a hindrance, and one must avoid indulging in it, abandoning oneself to the feverish illusion of concepts." - Vladimir Lossky … [Read more...]
The East
"God planted the garden in Eden, in the East." - St. Symeon the New Theologian … [Read more...]
God Without Opposite
"God as being, existence itself and goodness itself and wisdom itself - or to speak more truly, above all these - has altogether no opposite..." - St. Maximus the Confessor … [Read more...]
Idle Words
"Since an 'idle word' is not just one which is unprofitable, but equally one which is spoken or written 'before we practice it and gain knowledge of it from experience." - - Anestis Keselopoulos, Man … [Read more...]
Material Autonomy
"The oppressive and tyrranical control which man feels from material goods is due to the effort he makes, whether consciously or unconsciously, to make them autonomous from their Creator."- Anestis … [Read more...]
Iconography and Ecology
(of ikons): "The fact that man, as the crown of creation, is always put in the foreground while the rest of creation is arranged as a background, not only shows mand's dominant position in creation, … [Read more...]
Tyrrany
"St. Symeon notes man's tendency to tyrranize his social and his natural environment." - Anestis Keselopoulos, Man and the Environment … [Read more...]