CHRISTIAN LOVE – SOURCE OF GOOD AND CONSEQUENCE OF HUMAN COMMUNION IN FREEDOM
CHRISTIAN LOVE – SOURCE OF GOOD AND CONSEQUENCE OF HUMAN COMMUNION IN FREEDOM

Summary/Abstract: In Orthodoxy, one speaks not only of the sacramental priesthood of the clergy but also of the priesthood of the faithful (universal), because in a broad sense the term "priesthood" refers to the calling of every human being, the priesthood being intrinsically linked to the human structure. In other words, the depth of human thought and feeling must be found inescapably within the principle: we are all equal brothers in the freedom of good about our fellow men and God. The true freedom of man is not pride because man is not God. The strongest of men does not exist unless God also exists. True freedom is that which chooses the good, the free good that is not imposed by necessity, the good done out of pure love that sets the man, who arrives on this hard-to-reach path, to fulfill this senselessness and to walk in the footsteps of God and thus also to see, feel and receive salvation. Goodness is not only limited to material well-being, it must also be a spiritual state of well-being. Not only externally, but also communally, and internally. Man is not only a body, but also a soul. We have an outlined distinction, according to many writings, between the sensible good - pleasure, the intellectual good - science and the moral good - virtue. In Christianity, good does not overcome the conceptions of ancient philosophy through a better-developed concept, but through Christ, Who is the fullness of good and goodness, through which humanity has the opportunity to connect with the Holy Trinity. It is a communion by grace, not with the being of God, but it is a real, "psychosomatic" communion, not a merely rational one.

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