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Patristics
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Being (in the sense of "God is Being, from whom all creation takes its being") is an auto-kenetic crystalline active power unfolding within itself unceasingly. The key concept is that of intrinsic cyclic motion, power to act. Existence is a verb, an action, a doing. "Action springs forth" (from "to be") as the "Word leapt.
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― Augustine and Nicene Theology: Essays on Augustine and the Latin Argument for Nicaea
― Augustine and Nicene Theology: Essays on Augustine and the Latin Argument for Nicaea
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The Kingdom of God is not a Talmud, nor is it a mechanical collection of scriptural or patristic quotations outside our being and our lives. The Kingdom of God is within us, like a dynamic leaven which fundamentally changes man's whole life, his spirit and his body. What is required in patristic study, in order to remain faithful to the Fathers' spirit of freedom and worthy of their spiritual nobility and freshness, is to approach their holy texts with the fear in which we approach and venerate
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― Hymn of Entry: Liturgy and Life in the Orthodox Church
― Hymn of Entry: Liturgy and Life in the Orthodox Church



































