THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE GOD'S BEING AND THE UNCREATED DIVINE ENERGIES IN ORTHODOX THEOLOGY
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE GOD'S BEING AND THE UNCREATED DIVINE ENERGIES IN ORTHODOX THEOLOGY
Author(s): George Daniel PetrovSubject(s): Eastern Orthodoxy, Sociology of Religion, History of Religion, Psychology of Religion
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: God's being; uncreated energies; divine persons; man; salvation;
Summary/Abstract: The relationship between God and his uncreated energies represent maybe the most important chapter of theology, from its understanding depending many other theological chapters, including human salvation. For the contemporary man, the understanding of this section of theology has a special importance, from it depending the preservation of the revealed truth, unaltered by heresies. From the multitude of religions, considering themselves most important, only the Orthodox Church preserved the truth unchanged. Only through the understanding of these energies the man can be fully conscious of the reality of the truth. According to this truth God is living and working. Practically, the man knows God through the fact that every divine Hypostasis manifests the energies, common to the Unique Being, differently, offering to the man the possibility to tend to deisis.
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 20
- Page Range: 1469-1473
- Page Count: 5
- Language: Romanian