By Kallistos Ware
This e-book is a basic account of the doctrine, worship and lifetime of Orthodox Christians via the writer of the now vintage The Orthodox Church. It increases the elemental problems with theology: God is hidden but published; the matter with evil; the character of salvation; the that means of religion; prayer; dying and what lies past. In so doing, it is helping to fill the necessity for contemporary Orthodox catechism. but this e-book isn't a trifling handbook, a dry-as-dust repository of knowledge. through the booklet, Bishop Kallistos Ware exhibits the that means of Orthodox doctrine for the lifetime of the person Christian. Doctrinal concerns are noticeable no longer as summary propositions for theological debate yet as affecting the full of lifestyles. A wealth of texts drawn from theologians and non secular writers of every age accompanies Bishop Kallistos' presentation. They, too, exhibit Orthodoxy not only as a procedure of ideals, practices and customs yet certainly because the manner.
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God is not just a cosmic clockmaker, who winds up the machinery and then leaves it to keep ticking on its own. On the con trary, creation is continual. If we are to be accurate when speaking of creation, we should use not the past tense but the continuous present. We should say, not 'God made the world, and me in it', but 'God is making the world, and me in it, here and now, at this moment and always'. Creation is not an event in the past, but a relationship in the present. If God did not continue to exert his creative will at every moment, the universe would immediately lapse into non-being; nothing could exist for a single second if God did not will it to be.
So God's tak ing of our hum anity is a Trinitarian work. The Spirit is sent down from the Father, to effect the Son's presence within the womb of the Virgin. The Incarnation, it should be added, is not only the work of the Trinity but also the work of Mary's free wili.. God waited for her • • . 45 voluntary consent, expressed in th e words, 'Behold, the handmaid of the Lord: be it unto me according to thy word' (Luke 1 :38) ; and had this consent been withheld, Mary would not have become God's Mother.
Theophilus of Antioch We do not know God in his essence. We know him rather from the grandeur of his creation and from his providential care for all creatures. For by this means, as if using a mirror, we attain insight into his infinite goodness, wisdom and power. St Maximus the Confessor 32 The most important th ing that happens between and the human soul is to love and to be loved. God Kallistos Katapbygiotis Love for God is ecstatic, making us go out from ourselves: it does not allow the lover to belong any more to himself, but he belongs only to the Beloved.
