Alexios Trader > Quotes

“the Anglicans admit that the theology of the East and the West share the same spiritual foundations, and that the theology used to be the same.”
― Alexios Trader, Patristic Theology: The University Lectures of Fr. John Romanides

“Holy Scripture does not aim at describing God, because God is indescribable. Holy Scripture aims at guiding man to union with God. This is the reason why the Bible uses symbolic language when it talks about God. After all, the prophet is forced to use concepts, forms, and images taken from human experience in order to describe the uncreated, which remains indescribable”
― Alexios Trader, Patristic Theology: The University Lectures of Fr. John Romanides

“While the Word participates in the glory of the Father by nature, and not by grace, man participates in this glory by grace.”
― Alexios Trader, Patristic Theology: The University Lectures of Fr. John Romanides