Status Updates From The Orthodox Church

"Latin Scholastic theology, emphasizing as it does the essence at the expense of the persons, comes near to turning God into an abstract idea. He becomes a remote and impersonal being, whose existence has to be proved by metaphysical arguments - a God of the philosophers, not the God of Abraham, [...] what is important is [...] that we should have a direct and living encounter with a concrete and personal God."

"But if Christians are People of the Book, the Bible is the Book of the People; it must not be regarded as something set up 'over' the Church, but [...] understood 'within'."

"It is from the Church that the Bible ultimately derives its authority, for it was the Church which originally decided which books form a part of Holy Scripture; and it is the Church alone which can interpret Holy Scripture with authority."

"...icons were part of the transfigured cosmos." (18)