Caracterul ființial-volitiv al naşterii Fiului din Tatăl în disputa ortodoxiei cu arianismul
The essential-volitional character of the Birth of the Son from the Father in the dispute between Orthodoxy and Arianism

Author(s): Adrian D. Covan
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion, Other Christian Denominations
Published by: Ideas Forum International Academic and Scientific Association
Keywords: Being of God; free will; Father; Son; Arianism;
Summary/Abstract: In the doctrine of the Eastern Church, according to the Consensum Patrum, the ontology and ontogenesis of the Trinity represent the foundation of the true existence of God. Thus, the person is the polarizing element in the existential area, because not He who is comes from being, but being comes from He who is, that is, from He who encompasses in Himself the entire being – the sea of infinite being (πέλαγος οὐσίας ἀπέίρον). The Godhead always remains an unbounded ocean of existence in Himself, towards which man, although he is oriented in his tendency, will never be able to scale the peak of the infinite being. In the Christian understanding, communion is the act of unlimited freedom (proper to the person), which derives not from the substance of the Godhead, but from the Hypostasis of the Father, understood as the ontological and ontogenetic Principle of the Most Holy Trinity. Things are like this not because the divine nature is ekstasis being, but because the Father, as a Person, expresses himself freely in the act of communion.

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