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Orthodoxy is, first of all, an orthodoxy of life and not an orthodoxy of indoc- trination. From this point of view, her- etics are not so much those who con- fess a false doctrine but those who lead a disordered spiritual life and follow a false spiritual path. https://twitter.com/Jmoore37Moore/status/967263989943144448
Orthodoxy is, before all else,not a doctrine,not an
external organization,not an external norm of behavior,but spiritual life,a spiritual experience, and a spiritual path.
It holds the substance of Chris-tianity to consist in internal spiritual activity.
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external organization,not an external norm of behavior,but spiritual life,a spiritual experience, and a spiritual path.
It holds the substance of Chris-tianity to consist in internal spiritual activity.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54d0df1ee4b036ef1e44b144/t/58efc8a6db29d67bb267dc42/1492109479567/Berdyaev.pdf
Orthodoxy did not have its Scholastic age; it experienced only the age of Pa- tristics. And the Orthodox Church to this day relies on the Eastern teachers of the Church. The West sees this fact as a sign of Orthodoxy’s backward- ness, of a dying out
The West sees this fact as a sign of Orthodoxy’s backward- ness, of a dying out of creative life. But it can be given another interpretation: in Orthodoxy, Christianity was never rationalized as it was in the West, in Catholicism, thanks to the influence of Aristotle
Orthodoxy is the branch of Chris- tianity with a greater revelation of the Holy Spirit. Thus the Orthodox Church did not adopt the Filioque, which was viewed as a subordina- tionist teaching about the Holy Spirit.
The nature of the Holy Spirit is re- vealed not so much by dogmas and doctrines but by its action. The Holy Spirit is closer to us; it is more imma- nent in the world. The Holy Spirit acts directly upon the created world and transfigures creation. This teaching is
This teaching is revealed in the greatest of Russian saints, Seraphim of Sarov. Orthodoxy is not only Trinitarian in essence
But sees as the task of its earthly life the transfiguration of the world in the image of the Trinity,
But sees as the task of its earthly life the transfiguration of the world in the image of the Trinity,
