The Experience of Uncreated Grace: Theological and Spiritual Aspects of the Eastern Fathers of the Church
The Experience of Uncreated Grace: Theological and Spiritual Aspects of the Eastern Fathers of the Church

Summary/Abstract: In Orthodoxy, the human person is never a static reality or presence. He is alwaysunderstood as a being of communion, because he wants to meet other people, hisfellows, and especially his eternal prototype, which is “a communion of persons”,the Trinity God. The Orthodox theology and spirituality affi rm and expressthemselves by pointing to the possibility and reality of communion between man andGod through divine, uncreated, and existential energies. Life within the Traditionof the Church means life within the truth, and communion is understood as a livingand direct connection with the truth of the Father in the Holy Spirit. Orthodoxspirituality is a spirituality of uncreated grace not only because it is presented duringthe grace, which is the time of the Church. In addition, because it can be achievedonly with the work of grace, which spiritually transfers the believer to the level ofthe grace experience, that is the level of the ontology of the Holy Spirit.

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