What is the essence of Orthodoxy? It is the God-man Christ. Everything that is Orthodox has a
divine-human character: knowledge, the
senses, the will, the mind, mortality, dogma, philosophy, and life. Divine humanity is the only category in which
all the manifestations of Orthodoxy are received and fully operate. In all creation, God occupies the first
place, man the second. God leads while
man is led; God acts and man cooperates.
God does not act transcendentally, He is not the abstract God of deism,
but rather the God of the most immediate historic reality, the God of
revelation, the God who became man and lived within the categories of our human
existence while appearing everywhere as absolute holiness, goodness, wisdom,
justice and truth.
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